# tintColor

To ensure a more consistent user experience in native Squirrel components, all hover and highlight effects apply a set shade or tint effect.  This method allows you to pass in a colour and receive the RGBA code of a colour with a 30% tint applied to it.&#x20;

The method accepts the following argument

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<summary>color: string</summary>

The color in either Hex or RGB

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<summary>alpha: number (defaults to 1)</summary>

The alpha value for the color

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Returns an RGBA string of the new colour
