Spectrum - manipulating colors with ease 🎨

Spectrum is a lightweight JavaScript / TypeScript library designed to simplify color manipulation and conversion tasks within the RGB, HSL, and HEX color spaces.

It may be not the most extensive library out there, but it’s precisely what you need for common color-related tasks. Whether you want to blend two colors, get a darker version of your color, or the saturation of a HEX color value. Spectrum is your finely-tuned instrument for simplifying these processes.

Installation

npm i @snipshot/spectrum

Example

import Spectrum, { adjustHsl } from '@snipshot/spectrum';

const spectrum = new Spectrum('hsl', [231, 0.66, 0.53, 0.8]);

const adjustedColor = adjustHsl(spectrum, { hue: -23, lightness: '-13%' });

console.log(adjustedColor.hsl); // { h: 208, s: 0.66, l: 0.4, a: 0.8 }
console.log(adjustedColor.hex); // #236aa9cc

Main usage

Getting started with Spectrum is a breeze. Import the Spectrum class into your project and create an instance:

import Spectrum from '@snipshot/spectrum';

const spectrum = new Spectrum('rgb', '255 255 0'); // yellow

That's it! Spectrum instance provides several methods to reveal information about your color. For color manipulations you can import the function you need. Let's see all of these in action.

Color values

Spectrum instance has the properties hex, hsl and rgb to reveal the corresponting color values:

spectrum.hex; // #ffff00
spectrum.hsl; // { h: 60, s: 1, l: 0.5, a: 1 }
spectrum.rgb; // { r: 255, g: 255, b: 0, a: 1 }

By default, alpha channel value is 1 if it was not provided during initialization

You may also find useful other properties which return each value separately:

spectrum.alpha; // 1
spectrum.red; // 255
spectrum.green; // 255
spectrum.blue; // 0
spectrum.hue; // 60
spectrum.saturation; // 1
spectrum.lightness; // 0.5

Mixing colors

import Spectrum, { colorMix } from '@snipshot/spectrum';

const red = new Spectrum('hex', '#f00');
const blue = new Spectrum('rgb', '0, 0, 255, 1');

const purple = colorMix(red, blue, 0.5); // 0.5 is a weight of the first color (max value is 1)

console.log(purple.hex); // #800080

Change value

Suppose that you need to set lightness equal to 50%. Here is how you can do it:

import Spectrum, { setHsl } from '@snipshot/spectrum';

const darkgreen = new Spectrum('hex', '#006400');
const green = setHsl(darkgreen, { lightness: 0.5 });

console.log(green.hsl); // {h: 120, s: 0.98, l: 0.5, a: 1}

Negative color

You can get a reversed or negative color from your color using the invert() function:

import Spectrum, { invert } from '@snipshot/spectrum';

const yellow = new Spectrum('rgb', [255, 255, 0]);
const negativeColor = invert(yellow, 1); // 1 is a weight of the inverted color

console.log(negativeColor.rgb); // { r: 0, g: 0, b: 255, a: 1 } - blue

Create a color palette

To generate a color palette from a given color of various lightness it will be handy to use a createPalette() function. It returns an object with keys from 0 to 100 with step 1 and Spectrum instances as values with lightness set from 0 to 100.

import Spectrum, { createPalette } from '@snipshot/spectrum';

const cyan = new Spectrum('hex', '#0ff');
const palette = createPalette(cyan);

console.log(palette[0].hsl); // { h: 180, s: 1, l: 0, a: 1 } - black
console.log(palette[44].hsl); // { h: 180, s: 1, l: 0.44, a: 1 }
console.log(palette[100].hsl); // { h: 180, s: 1, l: 1, a: 1 } - white

API Documentation

You can find the detailed API description and use cases on spectrum.snipshot.dev.

Contributions

Contributions are always welcome! If you have ideas for improvements or new features, please open an issue or submit a pull request on GitHub.

Contacts

If you have any questions or need assistance, feel free to contact us at spectrum@snipshot.dev.

License

Spectrum is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

Happy coding! 😉