Where can I find a list of all standard theme brushes when writing XAML?

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Where can I find a visual list of all the standard theme brushes available to me in UWP/WinUI3 XAML?

For example, the High Contrast themes documentation includes a visual list of all the colors, augmented with descriptions of their intended use. Is there anything like this for non-high contrast colors?

Most helpful resources I've found:

XAML Theme Resources#The XAML color ramp and theme-dependent brushes - points to the full list of colors in WinUI:
WinUI's Common_themeresources_any.xaml - a daunting list of all colors, and it's hard to know which high-level brush to use without visual examples.
High Contrast themes - see above.
Fluent XAML Theme Editor app - simple app for creating custom themes, but hard to use as a reference.

Other documentation I've found:

Color in Windows apps - mentions the accent color ramp.
XAML styles - general documentation about XAML styling.
Windows.UI.Colors - many friendly colors ("red", "blue", e.g.), but not system colors.

So: is there a good visual reference of system brushes for UWP/WinUI3 developers?

Another example of what I'm looking for, the accent color palette from Color in Windows Apps:

The upcoming version WinUI 3 Gallery might have what you want. — Andrew KeepCoding
– Andrew KeepCoding, Commented Mar 13, 2023 at 2:31

citelao · Accepted Answer · 2025-04-10 16:56:17Z

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Andrew KeepCoding's comments are right---the new WinUI3 Gallery (GitHub), released this morning has a new Colors section with exactly this documentation:

The WinUI3 Gallery also includes links to the actual XAML definitions in Common_themeresources_any.xaml and Figma definitions in the Windows UI Kit.

edited Apr 10 at 16:56

answered Mar 14, 2023 at 18:47

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Blondie · Accepted Answer · 2023-05-29 22:10:28Z

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You can also refer to the styles in your generic.xaml file, on your computer. Just search for this file in C:. This file may give more information than other sources.

answered May 29, 2023 at 22:10

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