Metro UI CSS provides any additional global routines classes for creating and styling elements such as: color classes, positioning classes, columns and much more.
Reset styles: In Metro UI CSS used modified Normalize.css by Nicolas Gallaher.
Metro UI CSS provides access to the main colors used in Windows 8. You can sets: background, foreground, outline, border color for any elements.
To set background color: use prefix bg, to set foreground color: use prefix fg, to set outline color: use prefix ol, to set border color: use prefix bd.
Also you can set active, hover and focus colors with classes bg(fg)-hover-*, bg(fg)-active-* and bg(fg)-focus-*.
<div class="bg-darkPink">...</div> <span class="fg-white">...</span> <div class="tile ol-white">...</div> <a class="fg-cyan fg-hover-cobalt">...</a>
To create ribbed background use prefix ribbed
<div class="ribbed-amber">...</div> <div class="ribbed-cyan">...</div>