Chartycolor Over Color

Prefer ChartyColor over raw Color in public APIs

Charty's colors are expressed with com.himanshoe.charty.color.ChartyColor — a sealed type with Solid(color) and Gradient(colors). Every color a caller can set for a drawn chart element goes through it, so any element can be a solid or a gradient, and the API stays consistent.

Rule

A public val/parameter that colors a chart element must be ChartyColor, not Color. This covers fills, strokes, series/segment/arc/band/needle/point/zone colors — anything painted.

// Do
val fillColor: ChartyColor = ChartyColor.Solid(Color(0xFF1E88E5))
val zones: List<GaugeZone>            // where GaugeZone.color: ChartyColor

// Don't
val fillColor: Color = Color(0xFF1E88E5)

Resolve to a Brush at draw time (private helper, at the drawing site):

private fun ChartyColor.toBrush(): Brush =
    when (this) {
        is ChartyColor.Solid -> SolidColor(color)
        is ChartyColor.Gradient -> Brush.verticalGradient(colors)
    }

A default ARGB literal lives in a private const val ...ARGB = 0xFF…… (avoids detekt MagicNumber), wrapped as ChartyColor.Solid(Color(THE_ARGB)).

Not covered (raw Color is fine here)

• TextStyle — it already carries its own Color; keep using TextStyle.
• Internal / private drawing functions — may take a resolved Color or Brush parameter; the rule is about the public surface callers configure.
• Pre-existing raw-Color properties (ChartScaffoldConfig.axisColor/gridColor, ReferenceLineConfig.color/borderColor, PersistentMarker.guideLineColor, crosshair line colors): legacy. Don't sweep them just to change types, but when you add a new color property next to them, make the new one ChartyColor.

Applying it

• New config/data/composable color property → type it ChartyColor, default a Solid(...).
• Add a private toBrush() (or reuse an existing one in that drawer) and paint with brush = ....
• Commit gate: a staged diff that adds a public Color-typed color property (outside the exemptions above) is not ready — switch it to ChartyColor. commit-with-stats checks for it.

Quick self-check on a staged diff:

git diff --cached -U0 -- '*/config/*.kt' '*/data/*.kt' | grep -E '^\+' | grep -E 'val [A-Za-z]*[Cc]olor[A-Za-z]*: Color'

Every hit should be justified by an exemption above; otherwise make it ChartyColor.