Changing text color at runtime always white...

Questions & Answers
1

I’m trying to change text to a specific shade by using this code:

timeColor = new Color (68f, 144f, 233f, 1f);
timerDisplay.gameObject.GetComponent<Text> ().color = timeColor;

And have also tried this:

timeColor = new Color (68f, 144f, 233f, 1f);
timerDisplay.color = timeColor

They both turn my text to white for some reason. Any ideas why?

2

The RGB values of a Color need to be float values between 0-1. (You can calculate these values by dividing by 255.)

If you want to use byte values, you need to use Color32

timeColor = new Color32(68, 144, 233, 255);
3

color is not a property of the text itself, but of the UI element that contains it. What you want is timerDisplay.font.material.color

And yeah, as the above answer says you need 0-1 values.

4

You can use color attribute to provide color for the text.

It can be done by two ways → using the color static attributes and color class constructor.

using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using UnityEngine.UI;

public class ColorDemo : MonoBehaviour {

    [SerializeField]
    Text infoText;

    void Start () {
       infoText.text = "Hello World";
       infoText.color = Color.red; //Red color using Color class
       //Red color using hex value. (255,0,0) => 255/255, 0/255, 0/255) => (1,0,0)
       infoText.color = new Color(1f, 0f, 0f); 
       // Color with opacity value. 1 means opaque and 0 means transparent.
       infoText.color = new Color(1f, 0f, 0f, 0.5f); 
    }
}