bgrins/TinyColor
TinyColor
TinyColor is a JavaScript color manipulation library used for parsing, converting, and modifying colors across various formats and color spaces. It functions as a color space conversion tool and a web accessibility contrast checker to ensure compliance with readability standards.
The library provides a color palette generator for creating monochromatic, analogous, and complementary color schemes from a starting color. It also translates colors between hex, RGB, HSL, HSV, and named formats.
Additional capabilities include color parsing and normalization, programmatic manipulation of brightness, saturation, and hue, and web accessibility auditing through contrast ratio calculations. The toolset also covers dynamic UI color generation and the analysis of color perception.
Features
- Color Manipulation Libraries - Implements a comprehensive suite for parsing, converting, and programmatically modifying colors across multiple formats in JavaScript.
- Color Palette Generators - Generates harmonious color palettes including monochromatic, analogous, complementary, and triadic schemes.
- Accessibility Contrast Audits - Calculates contrast ratios between text and background colors to audit compliance with accessibility standards.
- Color Scheme Manipulators - Adjusts brightness, saturation, and hue of colors to create dynamic visual effects.
- Color Space Converters - Transforms color coordinates between different mathematical models and formats using algebraic formulas.
- Property Adjustments - Provides utilities for modifying the lightness, brightness, saturation, or hue of a color.
- Color Format Normalizers - Translates colors between multiple representations including hex, RGB, HSL, and HSV.
- Color String Parsers - Employs regular expressions to parse various color string formats into manipulatable objects.
- Contrast Validators - Calculates contrast ratios between colors to ensure compliance with web accessibility and readability standards.
- Internal Color Representations - Provides a standardized internal RGB representation to ensure consistent calculations across different color spaces.
- Color Luminosity Calculators - Calculates perceived brightness and luminance of colors using standard weighting ratios.
- Dynamic Theme Color Generators - Programmatically creates coordinated color palettes and schemes to build consistent visual themes.
- Color Blending - Implements color blending by calculating weighted averages of color channel values.
- WCAG Contrast Checkers - Calculates contrast ratios between colors to verify compliance with WCAG accessibility and readability standards.
- Named Color Mappings - Provides a lookup table to translate human-readable color names into RGB values.
- Color Libraries - Fast, small library for color manipulation and conversion.
- Color Manipulation - Fast and lightweight color conversion and manipulation.
- Color Utilities - Fast, lightweight color conversion and manipulation.
