String to Color

Tiny library to generate the same nice hex color for a string in Javascript.

###Features

• Sexy colors, not muddy browns and boring grays
• Binary safe

###Demo

http://dertobsch.github.io/stringToColor/

Why it needed to exist

I needed a way to generate a consistent NICE color for any given word to assign a tag it's own independent color (without knowing what all tags are).

How to use it

####Bower

Add it to your bower.json

...
"dependencies": {
    "string-to-color": "^1.0.1"
}
...

####EcmaScript 6 (ES6)

StringToColor Is realized as an EcmaScript 6 Module. You can find the ES6 Module in

dist/string-to-color.js

####Universal Module Definition (UMD)

The pattern is admittedly ugly, but is both AMD and CommonJS compatible, as well as supporting the old-style “global” variable definition.

If your engines do not support EC6 you can use the UMD Module

dist/string-to-color.umd.js

###Development

Get all dependencies via npm

npm install

You can run all tasks via Grunt by typing

grunt

it will

• lint the files with eslint
• run all tests via mocha
• convert the ES6 Module via babel into an UMD Module
• finally copy the ES6 and the UMD Modules into /dist

###License

String to color is licensed under the Apache License 2.0