Tip: Create a lighter/darker color based on a system color

[jatubio]

There is a class called ControlPaint in the System.Windows.Forms namespace four methods that enable you to lighten and darken colors:

Dark() – Creates a darker color from the specified color.
DarkDark() – Creates a much darker color.
Light() – Creates a lighter color.
LightLight() – Creates a much lighter color.

All four static methods accept a Color structure argument and return the new Color. The Dark and Light methods are overloaded and can also accept a floating point percentage of their respective DarkDark or LightLight colors, where 1.0 equals 100%:

public static Color Dark( Color baseColor )
public static Color Dark( Color baseColor, float pctOfDarkDark )
public static Color DarkDark( Color baseColor )

And the same for Light() and LightLight()

Sample code:

this.BackColor=System.Windows.Forms.ControlPaint.LightLight(Color.AliceBlue);

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Thanks for sharing this tip here jatubio