Cobalt, not black...

[Blackwood504]

The name of the black accent color is "cobalt." The cobalt theme was, I think, first seen in a video of the HTC 8s. Naturally everyone said black. I saw a video today of the lumia 820 with this same theme but the accent color was called "cobalt."


Lumia 820 shown with cobalt theme

Settings showing theme name

Accent colors shown in the SDK

 

[VagrantWade]

Or the color showing in that menu isn't the color theme you see in the other shots. Since you know, Cobalt is dark blue.

 

[Blackwood504]

Or the color showing in that menu isn't the color theme you see in the other shots. Since you know, Cobalt is dark blue.

For some reason in this build of WP it's shown as cobalt...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XEOMbBy1HM
[YT]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XEOMbBy1HM[/YT]

 

[Yakkaimono]

It is the high constrast mode with white background. That's all there is too it. The theme color doesn't matter with that option, so most probably cobalt was the theme used before activating the mode.
FYI If you choose high contrast mode with black background then the tiles are also black but with a thin white border.

 

[AngryNil]

Spot on, Yakkaimono.

Off topic, but I really like the black text on light background for the lock screen.

 

[Daniel Ratcliffe]

It is the high constrast mode with white background. That's all there is too it. The theme color doesn't matter with that option, so most probably cobalt was the theme used before activating the mode.
FYI If you choose high contrast mode with black background then the tiles are also black but with a thin white border.

It's great that they've approached it with a high contrast mode. If only High Contract with black background changed the tiles to white though

 

[dazziex]

Am I the only one around here thinking that the tiles are gorgeous with the black edges?

 

[Winterfang]

Am I the only one around here thinking that the tiles are gorgeous with the black edges?

Probably not. I'm not crazy over that look.

 

[brmiller1976]

Black edges on a white background works, but I HATE the white background. The first thing I do when I get a WP is change the default background to black.

 

[Winterfang]

I'm using the white background right now. Is nice for texting.

 

[poiman]

Black edges on a white background works, but I HATE the white background. The first thing I do when I get a WP is change the default background to black.

The first thing I'll do is to make sure it's not black. I wish we had more colours tho.

 

[VagrantWade]

I plan on using a white background with blue tiles. Blue and White is just my favorite color combination.

 

[rockstarzzz]

White with Nokia Blue is gorgeous!

I wish we din't have that weird shadow effect on Emails with white background from time to time

 

[Heron_Kusanagi]

A bug perhaps? Cobalt is mainly used for colouring things blue.

 

[VagrantWade]

A bug perhaps? Cobalt is mainly used for colouring things blue.

Yea...I would hope the black if anything is called Onyx.

 

[Heron_Kusanagi]

Yea...I would hope the black if anything is called Onyx.

I personally will prefer Obsidian. But as long as it isn't called Cobalt.

 

[Yakkaimono]

Yea...I would hope the black if anything is called Onyx.

I personally will prefer Obsidian. But as long as it isn't called Cobalt.

Read my previous reply in this thread. Black won't be available as a color. It's the high contrast mode.