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Color.js: Let’s get serious about color

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Color.js is a color conversion and modification library originally created by two of the editors of the CSS Color specifications: Lea Verou and Chris Lilley. They continue to work on it, but are also joined by an exceptional small grassroots team of co-maintainers.

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Impact

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Installation

Color.js is designed make simple things easy, and complex things possible, and that extends to installation as well.

For quick experiments, you can just import Color.js directly from the CDN (kindly provided by the awesome folks at Netlify) with all modules included:

import Color from "https://colorjs.io/dist/color.js";

You can also install via npm if you’d prefer:

npm install colorjs.io

Whether you’re using NPM, the CDN, or local files, Color.js allows you to also import specific modules by directly importing from src:

For example:

import Color from "https://colorjs.io/src/color.js";
import p3 from "https://colorjs.io/src/spaces/p3.js";
import rec2020 from "https://colorjs.io/src/spaces/rec2020.js";
import deltaE200 from "https://colorjs.io/src/deltaE/deltaE2000.js";

Warning: To use import statements in a browser, your <script> needs type="module"

Are you old school and prefer to simply have a global Color variable? We’ve got you covered! Just include the following script in your HTML:

<script src="https://colorjs.io/dist/color.global.js"></script>
<p class="read-more"><a href="https://colorjs.io/get">Read more about installation</a></p> </section> <section>

Reading colors

Any color from CSS Color Level 4 should work:

let color = new Color("slategray");
let color2 = new Color("hwb(60 30% 40% / .5)");
let color3 = new Color("color(display-p3 0 1 0 / .9)");
let color4 = new Color("lch(50% 80 30)");

You can also create Color objects manually:

let color2 = new Color("hwb", [60, 30, 40], .5);
let color3 = new Color({space: "p3", coords: [0, 1, 0], alpha: .9});
<p class="read-more"><a href="https://colorjs.io/docs/the-color-object.html">Read more about color objects</a> </section> <section> <h2>Manipulating colors</h2>

You can use properties to modify coordinates of any color space and convert back

let color = new Color("slategray");
color.lch.l = 80; // Set coord directly in any color space
color.lch.c *= 1.2; // saturate by increasing LCH chroma by 20%
color.hwb.w += 10; // any other color space also available

To modify coordinates in any color space you use color.set() and color.setAll():

let color = new Color("slategray");

// Multiple coordinates
color.set({
	"lch.l": 80, // set lightness to 80
	"lch.c": c => c * 1.2 // Relative manipulation
});

// Set single coordinate
color.set("hwb.w", w => w + 10);

Coordinates of the color's color space are available without a prefix:

let color = new Color("slategray").to("lch");

// Multiple coordinates
color.set({
	l: 80, // set lightness to 80
	c: c => c * 1.2 // Relative manipulation
});

// Set single coordinate
color.set("h", 30);

Chaining-style modifications are also supported:

let color = new Color("lch(50% 50 10)");
color = color.set({
	h: h => h + 180,
	c: 60
}).lighten();

You can also use properties:

let color = new Color("slategray");
color.lch.l = 80; // Set coord directly in any color space
color.lch.c *= 1.2; // saturate by increasing LCH chroma by 20%
color.hwb.w += 10; // any other color space also available

Coordinates of the color's color space are available without a prefix:

let color = new Color("slategray").to("lch");
color.l = 80; // Set LCH lightness
color.c *= 1.2; // saturate by increasing LCH chroma
<p class="read-more"><a href="https://colorjs.io/docs/manipulation.html">Read more about color manipulation</a></p> </section> <section>

Converting between color spaces & stringifying

Convert to any color space:

let color = new Color("slategray");
color.to("lch") // Convert to LCH

Output in any color space

let color = new Color("slategray");
color + ""; // default stringification
color.to("p3").toString({precision: 3});

Clip to gamut or don't

let color = new Color("p3", [0, 1, 0]);
color.to("srgb") + ""; // Default toString()
color.to("srgb").toString({inGamut: false});
<p class="read-more"><a href="https://colorjs.io/docs/output.html">Read more about output</a></p> </section> <section>

Interpolation

Get a function that accepts a percentage:

let color = new Color("p3", [0, 1, 0]);
let redgreen = color.range("red", {
	space: "lch", // interpolation space
	outputSpace: "srgb"
});
redgreen(.5); // midpoint

Interpolation by discrete steps:

let color = new Color("p3", [0, 1, 0]);
color.steps("red", {
	space: "lch",
	outputSpace: "srgb",
	maxDeltaE: 3, // max deltaE between consecutive steps
	steps: 10 // min number of steps
});

Shortcut for specific points in the range:

let color = new Color("p3", [0, 1, 0]);
let redgreen = color.mix("red", .5, {space: "lch", outputSpace: "srgb"});
let reddishGreen = color.mix("red", .25, {space: "lch", outputSpace: "srgb"});

Static syntax (every color method has a static one too):

Color.mix("color(display-p3 0 1 0)", "red", .5);
<p class="read-more"><a href="https://colorjs.io/docs/interpolation.html">Read more about interpolation</a></p> </section>