Angular 2 Material use lighter/darker colors on button

Question

Is there any elegant way to use lighter/darker variants of either primary or accent colors with buttons in angular 2 material without recreating whole styling by hand?

Answer 1

If you use sass you can import material theming into your scss file and target material colors like so:

app.component.scss

@import '~@angular/material/theming';

.buttonPrimary {
    background-color: mat-color($mat-purple, 200);
}

.buttonAccent {
    background-color: mat-color($mat-amber, A200);
}

app.component.html

<button md-raised-button class="buttonPrimary">primary</button>
<button md-raised-button class="buttonAccent">accent</button>