There are number of provisions to have your design protected.
What you can essentially patent is not how the colours are applied to the design pattern that you have put in considerable amount of efforts but how the structure of your design is and what is the interaction involved.
I have checked multiple places about this and have shared thoughts to my fellow colleagues in my current organization. you can refer to below article very well written by Christie Tang
https://onezero.medium.com/the-ui-ux-patterns-you-literally-cant-use-64875a5c965f
A quick example to show what it typically looks like is below
Spotify: Spotify’s “Shuffle Play” button is patented in its half-header style.
