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Text Color

Part of the Your First App section of Coddy's Flutter journey. Lesson 9 of 32.

The color: of a TextStyle sets the color of the letters. Flutter has a ready list of colors called Colors:

Text(
  'Go',
  style: TextStyle(color: Colors.green),
)

Type Colors. and the name: Colors.red, Colors.blue, Colors.orange, Colors.purple and many more. Some have a lighter twin with Accent on the end, like Colors.redAccent. That is a different color.

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Challenge

Easy

Make Stop red: add color: Colors.red to its TextStyle.

Try it yourself

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';

void main() {
  runApp(const MyApp());
}

class MyApp extends StatelessWidget {
  const MyApp({super.key});

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return MaterialApp(
      debugShowCheckedModeBanner: false,
      home: Scaffold(
        body: Center(
          child: Text('Stop', style: TextStyle(fontSize: 48)),
        ),
      ),
    );
  }
}
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