It’s very unlikely that you’ll use the stock UIButtons without a custom image or some sort of color customization done with UIAppearance.
Here’s a UIButton called LDGradientButton replacement that works with the UIAppearance protocol, and can be used within storyboards, but adds the ability to further customize the look of the buttons using gradients.
Here’s an image showing LDGradientButton in action:
As you can see you can make some nice looking buttons.
You can find LDGradientButton On Github here.
A nice simple control for making gradient buttons.
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Original article: iOS UIButton Replacement Adding Gradients That Works With Storyboards And UIAppearance
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