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Calendar You: pick your accent, and take it to your widgets

· 2 min read
Kash

Last release we gave you KashCal Teal and were very pleased with ourselves. Then someone pointed out the obvious: we had spent a whole update letting you choose your color, and then chose it for you. A calendar telling you your favorite color is teal is a bit like a waiter ordering for the table. Bold. Rarely correct.

Your color, everywhere​

So this release we got out of the way. Pick your accent from all 92 colors, and it runs through the entire app and, for the first time, out onto your home screen widgets too. The agenda, week, month, and date widgets all wear it, down to a proper raised add button. You'll find it under Settings, then Appearance.

Prefer the old magic where the color follows your wallpaper? Automatic keeps your Material You colors exactly as they were. Nothing changes unless you want it to.

Every color is contrast-checked as it lands, so whatever you pick, the text on top of it stays readable, in light mode and dark.

Calendar You​

Our marketing team, several donuts deep by mid-afternoon, has decided to call this Calendar You. We did the math on 92 colors, one calendar, and infinite you, and we could not find the flaw, so it is approved. Please clap.

Two smaller kindnesses​

While we were in a generous mood, the week and 3-day views learned to stay put. Reopen the app and you land back where you were looking, not scrolled off to some default hour like nothing happened.

And moving an event to another calendar no longer quietly eats a title or note you edited in the same breath. What you typed is what you keep.

Everything in this release​

  • Accent color picker: theme the whole app and all home screen widgets with any of 92 colors, defaulting to KashCal Teal
  • Automatic accent keeps your Material You and wallpaper colors
  • Agenda, week, month, and date widgets recolor to your accent, with a raised add button
  • Week and 3-day views restore your last scroll position across app restart
  • Moving an event to another calendar preserves title and note edits made in the same save

Ninety-two colors. Still one calendar. Now unmistakably yours.