Framework icons color in Xcode

Question

What is the difference between these icons in Linked Frameworks And Libraries tab? Why some of them have default yellow color, and some are whitened?

Answer 1

Those are the frameworks that Xcode thinks not exists and they will be available after the build process. Sometimes Xcode forgets to update the UI for that and remove the whitened tint color.

Answer 2

Framework icon color

My observations says that frameworks which are targets of generated projects(CocoaPods, Tuist) are whitened(pale).

For example you are able to create a workspace and experiment with this