# $primary-medium SCSS variable problems

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**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [July 9, 2019, 2:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/primary-medium-scss-variable-problems/122390 "2019-07-09T02:34:21Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 9, 2019, 2:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/primary-medium-scss-variable-problems/122390/1 "2019-07-09T02:34:21Z")

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I have a default primary colour: #4d238c. The issue is: the color for $primary-medium being generated (#a179de) doesn’t pass accessibility guidelines, so i need to make it darker.

It seems laborious to change it in all places where the system is using the medium colour when I could just over write $primary-medium to be red say for example

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