The colord npm package is a tiny yet powerful tool for color conversions and manipulations. It provides functions for parsing colors, converting them between different color models, and manipulating their properties such as hue, saturation, lightness, and alpha channel.
What are colord's main functionalities?
Parsing and converting colors
This feature allows you to parse color strings and convert them to different color models. The example shows how to parse a hex color and convert it to an RGB object.
This feature enables you to manipulate color properties such as alpha channel. The example demonstrates setting the alpha of an RGBA color and converting it to a string.
This feature helps in checking if a color is readable on another color, which is useful for accessibility. The example checks if the color '#ff5733' is readable on a white background.
const { colord, extend } = require('colord');
extend([require('colord/plugins/a11y')]);
const color = colord('#ff5733');
console.log(color.isReadable('#ffffff')); // true or false
Chroma.js is a powerful library for all kinds of color conversions and color scales. It is more feature-rich and has a larger footprint compared to colord, which is more lightweight.
TinyColor is a small, fast library for color manipulation and conversion in JavaScript. It offers similar functionalities to colord but with a different API design and slightly larger size.
The 'color' package is another tool for color conversion and manipulation. It provides a chainable API and is more established but is larger in size compared to colord.
Colord is a tiny color manipulation and conversion tool
Features
📦 Small: Just 1.5 KB gzipped (3+ times lighter than color and tinycolor)
👑 A tiny yet powerful tool for high-performance color manipulations and conversions
The npm package colord receives a total of 9,119,765 weekly downloads. As such, colord popularity was classified as popular.
We found that colord demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago.It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 31 Mar 2021
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