How to set color of toggle buttons

Question

I have group of toggle buttons. They are very light and disappear in the background on poor monitors with a high brightness level.

How can I properly style

Answer 1

matButtonToggle does not support the color property like matButton.

You can use the css classes .mat-button-toggle and .mat-button-toggle-checked to style the different states.

With material theming you can extract whichever individual palettes you need from the theme and apply the backgrounds default-contrast color to the text color to achieve optimal contrast with light or dark colors.

Here is a Stackblitz with your mat-button-toggle-group example: Stackblitz angular-t1k1x6

Theming used:

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

@include mat-core();

$app-primary: mat-palette($mat-indigo);
$app-accent:  mat-palette($mat-pink, A200, A100, A400);

$app-theme: mat-light-theme($app-primary, $app-accent);

@mixin mix-app-theme($app-theme) {
  $primary: map-get($app-theme, primary);
  $accent: map-get($app-theme, accent);

  .mat-button-toggle {
    background-color: mat-color($primary);
    color: mat-color($primary, default-contrast);
  }

  .mat-button-toggle-checked {
    background-color: mat-color($accent);
    color: mat-color($accent, default-contrast);
  }
}

// Include the mixin
@include mix-app-theme($app-theme);

Documents: Theming your Angular Material app