colorficial

Javascript Class for determining color names

Color utility. Provides functionality to determine the name of a color. Also provides hue, saturation, value, lightness (or brightness) and can be exported as a css declaration.

Full Documentation and Demo

http://kaanon.github.io/colorficial/

Installation

bower install colorficial

npm install --save colorficial

Usage

Instantiation

// Client Side with Bower
var Color = require('../../bower_components/colorficial/dist/color');
// Server Side with node.js
var Color = require('colorficial');

var c = new Color(255,100,100); //red, green, blue
var c = new Color([255,100,100]); // [red, green, blue]
var c = new Color('#FF9922');
var c = new Color({r: 255, g: 100, b: 100});
var c = new Color({red: 255, green: 100, blue: 100});

Name Methods

var c = new Color([11, 170, 181]);

c.name();
// blue
c.names();
// ["blue","green"]

c.is('red');
// false
c.is('blue');
// true

c.isLight();
// true (if brightness > 200)
c.isLight(100);
// true (if brightness > 100);

c.isDark();
// true (if brightness < 85)
c.isDark(100);
// true (if brightness < 100);

Color Attributes

var c = new Color([11, 170, 181]);
c.red;
// 11
c.green;
// 170
c.blue
// 181
c.hue
// 183.88  (measured between 0° and 360°)
c.brightness
// 37.65 (measured between 0 and 100)
c.lightness
// 37.65 (synonym of brightness)
c.saturation
// 88.54 (measured between 0 and 100)
c.value
// 88.54 (measured between 0 and 100)

Utility Methods

var c = new Color([11, 170, 181]);

c.css();
// "rgb(11,170,181)"
c.css(0.5);
// "rgba(11,170,181,0.5)"
c.cssHSL();
// "hsl(11,170,181,0.5)"
c.cssHSV();
// "hsv(11,170,181,0.5)"
c.toJSON();
// { red: 11, green: 170, blue: 181 }
c.toArray();
// [ 11, 170, 181 ]
c.toString()
// "[11, 170, 181]"

Supported Colors

• red
• orange
• brown
• yellow
• green
• blue
• indigo
• violet
• pink
• gray
• black
• white

Gotchas

Teal (blue/green) and dark pink are pretty 💩. Still working on that.

TODO

• bower support
• npm support
• more color names (extendable?)

License

MIT © Kaanon MacFarlane