Tag: color theory

PleaseJS – JavaScript Library for creating random pleasing colors and color schemes

PleaseJS – JavaScript Library for creating random pleasing colors and color schemes.  Similar in concept to randomColor.

CSS Colorguard – keep a watchful eye on your CSS colors

CSS Colorguard – keep a watchful eye on your CSS colors.

Here is a better description from the README:

Every CSS project starts out with good intentions, but inevitably, one too many people eye-dropper colors into nooks and crannies that you never knew existed. CSS Colorguard helps you maintain the color set that you want, and warns you when colors you’ve added are too similar to ones that already exist. Naturally, it’s all configurable to your tastes.

And here is my favorite part:

Colorguard uses the CIEDE2000 algorithm to determine the similarity of each of the colors in your CSS file. This algorithm is quite complex, but is used in the broadcasting community as the best approximation of human ability to discern differences in color. RGB on the other hand, is pretty bad at representing differences in color purely based on the numerical difference of the hex values.

Luckily, someone else already implemented CIEDE2000, so I didn’t have to. Tight. Cause this thing is mathy as hell.

CIEDE2000 math

randomColor – a color generator for JavaScript

randomColor – a color generator for JavaScript

randomColor

randomColor generates attractive colors by default. More specifically, randomColor produces bright colors with a reasonably high saturation. This makes randomColor particularly useful for data visualizations and generative art.

randomColor - similar

You can also pass an options object to randomColor. This allows you to specify the hue, luminosity and the number of colors to generate.