Colors
Bootstrap 5 Colors
MDB is supported by an extensive Material Design color system that themes our styles and components. This enables more comprehensive customization and extension for any project.
Theme
We use a subset of all colors to create a smaller color palette for generating color schemes,
also available as SCSS variables and a Sass map in Bootstrap’s
scss/free/_variables.scss file.
All these colors are available as a Sass map, $theme-colors in
scss/free/_variables.scss file.
$theme-colors: (
"primary": $primary,
"secondary": $secondary,
"success": $success,
"info": $info,
"warning": $warning,
"danger": $danger,
"light": $light,
"black": $black,
);
Note: Theme colors are also available as CSS classes. You can use them directly in your project without compiling scss code. Have a look at the examples below.
Background
Easily set the background by using .bg-* color classes
<div class="bg-primary"></div>
<div class="bg-secondary"></div>
<div class="bg-success"></div>
<div class="bg-danger"></div>
<div class="bg-warning"></div>
<div class="bg-info"></div>
<div class="bg-light"></div>
<div class="bg-dark"></div>
<div class="bg-white"></div>
<div class="bg-transparent"></div>
Background gradient
By adding a .bg-gradient class, a linear gradient is added as background
image to the backgrounds. This gradient starts with a semi-transparent white which fades out to the bottom.
Do you need a gradient in your custom CSS? Just add background-image: var(--mdb-gradient);.
<div class="p-3 mb-2 bg-primary bg-gradient text-white">.bg-primary.bg-gradient</div>
<div class="p-3 mb-2 bg-secondary bg-gradient text-white">.bg-secondary.bg-gradient</div>
<div class="p-3 mb-2 bg-success bg-gradient text-white">.bg-success.bg-gradient</div>
<div class="p-3 mb-2 bg-danger bg-gradient text-white">.bg-danger.bg-gradient</div>
<div class="p-3 mb-2 bg-warning bg-gradient text-dark">.bg-warning.bg-gradient</div>
<div class="p-3 mb-2 bg-info bg-gradient text-dark">.bg-info.bg-gradient</div>
<div class="p-3 mb-2 bg-light bg-gradient text-dark">.bg-light.bg-gradient</div>
<div class="p-3 mb-2 bg-dark bg-gradient text-white">.bg-dark.bg-gradient</div>
Text
Colorize text with color utilities.
.text-primary
.text-secondary
.text-success
.text-danger
.text-warning
.text-info
.text-light
.text-dark
.text-body
.text-muted
.text-white
.text-black
.text-white-50
.text-black-50
<p class="text-primary">.text-primary</p>
<p class="text-secondary">.text-secondary</p>
<p class="text-success">.text-success</p>
<p class="text-danger">.text-danger</p>
<p class="text-warning">.text-warning</p>
<p class="text-info">.text-info</p>
<p class="text-light bg-dark">.text-light</p>
<p class="text-dark">.text-dark</p>
<p class="text-body">.text-body</p>
<p class="text-muted">.text-muted</p>
<p class="text-white bg-dark">.text-white</p>
<p class="text-black">.text-black</p>
<p class="text-white-50 bg-dark">.text-white-50</p>
<p class="text-black-50 mb-5">.text-black-50</p>
Depracation: With the addition of .text-opacity-* utilities and CSS variables for text utilities,
.text-black-50 and .text-white-50 are deprecated as
of Bootstrap v5.1.0. They’ll be removed in v6.0.0.
Links
You can use the .link-* classes to colorize links. Unlike the
.text-* classes, these classes have a :hover and
:focus state.
<a href="#" class="link-primary">Primary link</a>
<a href="#" class="link-secondary">Secondary link</a>
<a href="#" class="link-success">Success link</a>
<a href="#" class="link-danger">Danger link</a>
<a href="#" class="link-warning">Warning link</a>
<a href="#" class="link-info">Info link</a>
<a href="#" class="link-light">Light link</a>
<a href="#" class="link-dark">Dark link</a>
Some of the button styles use a relatively light foreground color, and should only be used on a dark background in order to have sufficient contrast.
Components
We also use theme colors as predefined colors for some components, for example, buttons.
<button type="button" class="btn btn-primary">Primary</button>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-secondary">Secondary</button>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-success">Success</button>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-danger">Danger</button>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-warning">Warning</button>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-info">Info</button>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-light">Light</button>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-dark">Dark</button>
Opacity
Text color utilities are generated with Sass using CSS variables. This allows for real-time color changes without compilation and dynamic alpha transparency changes.
How it works
Consider our default .text-primary utility.
.text-primary {
--mdb-text-opacity: 1;
color: rgba(var(--mdb-primary-rgb), var(--mdb-text-opacity)) !important;
}
We use an RGB version of our --mdb-primary (with the value of 13, 110, 253) CSS variable and attached a second CSS variable,
--mdb-text-opacity, for the alpha transparency (with a default value 1 thanks to a local CSS variable). That means anytime you use .text-primary now, your computed
color value is rgba(13, 110, 253, 1). The local CSS variable inside each .text-*
class avoids inheritance issues so nested instances of the utilities don’t automatically have a modified alpha transparency.
Example
To change that opacity, override --mdb-text-opacity via custom styles or inline styles.
<div class="text-primary">This is default primary text</div>
<div class="text-primary" style="--mdb-text-opacity: .5;">This is 50% opacity primary text</div>
Or, choose from any of the .text-opacity utilities:
<div class="text-primary">This is default primary text</div>
<div class="text-primary text-opacity-75">This is 75% opacity primary text</div>
<div class="text-primary text-opacity-50">This is 50% opacity primary text</div>
<div class="text-primary text-opacity-25">This is 25% opacity primary text</div>
Background
To change that opacity, override --mdb-bg-opacity via custom styles or inline styles.
<div class="text-primary">This is default primary text</div>
<div class="bg-success p-2 text-white">This is default success background</div>
<div class="bg-success p-2" style="--mdb-bg-opacity: 0.5;">This is 50% opacity success background</div>
Or, choose from any of the .bg-opacity utilities:
<div class="bg-success p-2 text-white">This is default success background</div>
<div class="bg-success p-2 text-white bg-opacity-75">This is 75% opacity success background</div>
<div class="bg-success p-2 text-dark bg-opacity-50">This is 50% opacity success background</div>
<div class="bg-success p-2 text-dark bg-opacity-25">This is 25% opacity success background</div>
<div class="bg-success p-2 text-dark bg-opacity-10">This is 10% opacity success background</div>
Full palette
All MDB colors are available as SCSS variables and a Sass map in
scss/free/_variables.scss file. To avoid increased file sizes, we don’t create
text or background color classes for each of these variables. Instead, we choose a subset of
these colors for a theme palette.
Be sure to monitor contrast ratios as you customize colors. As shown below, we’ve added three contrast ratios to each of the main colors—one for the swatch’s current colors, one for against white, and one for against black.
Red 50 #FFEBEE
100 #FFCDD2
200 #EF9A9A
300 #E57373
400 #EF5350
500 #F44336
600 #E53935
700 #D32F2F
800 #C62828
900 #B71C1C
A100 #FF8A80
A200 #FF5252
A400 #FF1744
A700 #D50000
Pink 50 #FCE4EC
100 #F8BBD0
200 #F48FB1
300 #F06292
400 #EC407A
500 #E91E63
600 #D81B60
700 #C2185B
800 #AD1457
900 #880E4F
A100 #FF80AB
A200 #FF4081
A400 #F50057
A700 #C51162
Purple 50 #F3E5F5
100 #E1BEE7
200 #CE93D8
300 #BA68C8
400 #AB47BC
500 #9C27B0
600 #8E24AA
700 #7B1FA2
800 #6A1B9A
900 #4A148C
A100 #EA80FC
A200 #E040FB
A400 #D500F9
A700 #AA00FF
Deep Purple 50 #EDE7F6
100 #D1C4E9
200 #B39DDB
300 #9575CD
400 #7E57C2
500 #673AB7
600 #5E35B1
700 #512DA8
800 #4527A0
900 #311B92
A100 #B388FF
A200 #7C4DFF
A400 #651FFF
A700 #6200EA
Indigo 50 #E8EAF6
100 #C5CAE9
200 #9FA8DA
300 #7986CB
400 #5C6BC0
500 #3F51B5
600 #3949AB
700 #303F9F
800 #283593
900 #1A237E
A100 #8C9EFF
A200 #536DFE
A400 #3D5AFE
A700 #304FFE
Blue 50 #E3F2FD
100 #BBDEFB
200 #90CAF9
300 #64B5F6
400 #42A5F5
500 #2196F3
600 #1E88E5
700 #1976D2
800 #1565C0
900 #0D47A1
A100 #82B1FF
A200 #448AFF
A400 #2979FF
A700 #2962FF
Light Blue 50 #E1F5FE
100 #B3E5FC
200 #81D4FA
300 #4FC3F7
400 #29B6F6
500 #03A9F4
600 #039BE5
700 #0288D1
800 #0277BD
900 #01579B
A100 #80D8FF
A200 #40C4FF
A400 #00B0FF
A700 #0091EA
Cyan 50 #E0F7FA
100 #B2EBF2
200 #80DEEA
300 #4DD0E1
400 #26C6DA
500 #00BCD4
600 #00ACC1
700 #0097A7
800 #00838F
900 #006064
A100 #84FFFF
A200 #18FFFF
A400 #00E5FF
A700 #00B8D4
Teal 50 #E0F2F1
100 #B2DFDB
200 #80CBC4
300 #4DB6AC
400 #26A69A
500 #009688
600 #00897B
700 #00796B
800 #00695C
900 #004D40
A100 #A7FFEB
A200 #64FFDA
A400 #1DE9B6
A700 #00BFA5
Green 50 #E8F5E9
100 #C8E6C9
200 #A5D6A7
300 #81C784
400 #66BB6A
500 #4CAF50
600 #43A047
700 #388E3C
800 #2E7D32
900 #1B5E20
A100 #B9F6CA
A200 #69F0AE
A400 #00E676
A700 #00C853
Light Green 50 #F1F8E9
100 #DCEDC8
200 #C5E1A5
300 #AED581
400 #9CCC65
500 #8BC34A
600 #7CB342
700 #689F38
800 #558B2F
900 #33691E
A100 #CCFF90
A200 #B2FF59
A400 #76FF03
A700 #64DD17
Lime 50 #F9FBE7
100 #F0F4C3
200 #E6EE9C
300 #DCE775
400 #D4E157
500 #CDDC39
600 #C0CA33
700 #AFB42B
800 #9E9D24
900 #827717
A100 #F4FF81
A200 #EEFF41
A400 #C6FF00
A700 #AEEA00
Yellow 50 #FFFDE7
100 #FFF9C4
200 #FFF59D
300 #FFF176
400 #FFEE58
500 #FFEB3B
600 #FDD835
700 #FBC02D
800 #F9A825
900 #F57F17
A100 #FFFF8D
A200 #FFFF00
A400 #FFEA00
A700 #FFD600
Amber 50 #FFF8E1
100 #FFECB3
200 #FFE082
300 #FFD54F
400 #FFCA28
500 #FFC107
600 #FFB300
700 #FFA000
800 #FF8F00
900 #FF6F00
A100 #FFE57F
A200 #FFD740
A400 #FFC400
A700 #FFAB00
Orange 50 #FFF3E0
100 #FFE0B2
200 #FFCC80
300 #FFB74D
400 #FFA726
500 #FF9800
600 #FB8C00
700 #F57C00
800 #EF6C00
900 #E65100
A100 #FFD180
A200 #FFAB40
A400 #FF9100
A700 #FF6D00
Deep Orange 50 #FBE9E7
100 #FFCCBC
200 #FFAB91
300 #FF8A65
400 #FF7043
500 #FF5722
600 #F4511E
700 #E64A19
800 #D84315
900 #BF360C
A100 #FF9E80
A200 #FF6E40
A400 #FF3D00
A700 #DD2C00
Brown 50 #EFEBE9
100 #D7CCC8
200 #BCAAA4
300 #A1887F
400 #8D6E63
500 #795548
600 #6D4C41
700 #5D4037
800 #4E342E
900 #3E2723
Gray 50 #FBFBFB
100 #F5F5F5
200 #EEEEEE
300 #E0E0E0
400 #BDBDBD
500 #9E9E9E
600 #757575
700 #616161
800 #4F4F4F
900 #262626
Blue Gray 50 #ECEFF1
100 #CFD8DC
200 #B0BEC5
300 #90A4AE
400 #78909C
500 #607D8B
600 #546E7A
700 #455A64
800 #37474F
900 #263238
Black #000000
White #FFFFFF
Generating utilities
Bootstrap doesn’t include color and background-color utilities for every color variable,
but you can generate these yourself with our utility API and our extended Sass maps added in v5.1.0.
- To start, make sure you’ve imported our functions, variables, mixins, and utilities.
- Use our
map-merge-multiple()function to quickly merge multiple Sass maps together in a new map. - Merge this new combined map to extend any utility with a
{color}-{level}class name.
Here’s an example that generates text color utilities (e.g., .text-purple-500) using the above steps.
@import "bootstrap/scss/functions";
@import "bootstrap/scss/variables";
@import "bootstrap/scss/mixins";
@import "bootstrap/scss/utilities";
$all-colors: map-merge-multiple($blues, $indigos, $purples, $pinks, $reds, $oranges, $yellows, $greens, $teals, $cyans);
$utilities: map-merge(
$utilities,
(
"color": map-merge(
map-get($utilities, "color"),
(
values: map-merge(
map-get(map-get($utilities, "color"), "values"),
(
$all-colors
),
),
),
),
)
);
@import "bootstrap/scss/utilities/api";
This will generate new .text-{color}-{level} utilities for every color and level. You can do the same for any other utility and property as well.