Get Angular Material theme color scheme/palette for other elements

I personally put those in css4 variables so I can use those without imports like so

background: var(--color-primary)

And here is how to set up the css4 variables

@import '~@angular/material/theming';
// Include the common styles for Angular Material. We include this here so that you only
// have to load a single css file for Angular Material in your app.
// Be sure that you only ever include this mixin once!
@include mat-core();

// Define the palettes for your theme using the Material Design palettes available in palette.scss
// (imported above). For each palette, you can optionally specify a default, lighter, and darker
// hue. Available color palettes: https://material.io/design/color/
$app-primary: mat-palette($mat-blue);
$app-accent:  mat-palette($mat-orange);
$app-warn:    mat-palette($mat-red);
$app-success: mat-palette($mat-light-green);

// Create the theme object (a Sass map containing all of the palettes).
$app-theme: mat-light-theme($app-primary, $app-accent, $app-warn);

// Include theme styles for core and each component used in your app.
// Alternatively, you can import and @include the theme mixins for each component
// that you are using.
@include angular-material-theme($app-theme);

$primary: map-get($app-theme, primary);
$accent: map-get($app-theme, accent);

:root {
  --color-primary: #{mat-color($app-primary)};
  --color-accent: #{mat-color($app-accent)};
  --color-warn: #{mat-color($app-warn)};
  --color-success: #{mat-color($app-success)};
}

now colors can be used in css files without import with

background: var(--color-primary)