You can use the following brushes in your application to style your own interface using colors consistent with the Windows8 theme: Since the PaletteInstance is a DependencyObject, you can also animate the colors at runtime.įigure 1: Some of the possible looks you will be able to easily achieve. Other brushes are used at various places but as long as you do not pick the same colors for different brushes, your design will be alright. The MainColor brush controls the backgrounds. The most important brush, AccentColor, controls the colors of headers and selected items. = Colors.Black = Colors.Orange = Colors.Red = Colors.Yellow = Colors.Orange. = Colors.Black = Colors.Orange = Colors.DarkGray = Colors.Gray = Colors.LightGray = Colors.Red.