Gova
Modifiers

Color and background

Foreground and background colors with static and semantic variants.

func (n *viewNode) Color(c any) *viewNode
func (n *viewNode) Background(c any) *viewNode

Both modifiers accept either a concrete color.Color or a semantic color sentinel. Semantic sentinels are resolved against the active theme at render time.

Static colors

Fixed RGBA values that do not adapt to theme:

Red, Blue, Green, Orange, Purple, Gray, White, Black
gova.Text("Error").Color(gova.Red)
gova.VStack(...).Background(gova.White)

Semantic colors

Theme-resolved values. Use these when you want the color to flip under dark mode automatically:

Primary      // foreground text
Secondary    // muted text
Background   // surface background
Surface      // card or elevated background
Accent       // theme accent color
Destructive  // error or delete actions
Success
Warning
BorderColor  // borders and dividers
gova.Text("Heading").Color(gova.Primary)
gova.Text("Subtitle").Color(gova.Secondary)
gova.Button("Delete", onDel).Color(gova.Destructive)

The sentinel values are plain color.Color instances, so the modifier signature stays any; the renderer detects them and looks up the theme entry, falling back to sensible defaults if none is configured.

Hex literals

For one-off static colors pick via hex:

gova.Hex("#FF3B30")     // RGB, alpha defaults to FF
gova.Hex("#000000AA")   // RGB + alpha

Hex returns a color.Color. An invalid or wrong-length string returns opaque black (no panic).

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