ink

A tiny javascript color manipulation and translation library

Setup

Getting started is as easy as npm i --save @ion-cloud/ink and then merely importing the library with import ink from '@ion-cloud/ink';.

Please see code example here.

Ink Demo

Ink is a tiny color manipulation or translation library with robust validation and error handling that shines in places where you can't trust the input color or random generation and games. Here are a few of it's main capabilities:

• translate between color spaces: hex, cmyk, rgb, rgba, hsl, hsla, hsva, hsv, hsba or hsb
• apply weights to r(ed),g(green),b(lue),l(ightness) or s(aturation)
• apply a minimum or maximum lightness threshold on a color
• coerce a color to a certain lightness percent
• apply a minimum or maximum saturation threshold on a color
• coerce a color to a certain saturation percent
• apply an alpha value
• output to javascript object {r,g,b,a}

Main functions

The structure of the call is as follows:

ink(colorString,optionsObject);

colorString may be 6 character hex

ink('#ffffff') // outputs 'rgba(255,255,255,1)'

colorString may be 3 character hex

ink('#fff') // outputs 'rgba(255,255,255,1)'

colorString may be rgba

ink('rgba(255,255,255,1)') // outputs 'rgba(255,255,255,1)'

colorString may be rgb

ink('rgb(255,255,255)') // outputs 'rgba(255,255,255,1)'

colorString may be hsla (where percents are between 0 and 1)

ink('hsla(0,1,1,0.5)') // outputs 'rgba(255,255,255,0.5)'

colorString may be hsl (where percents are between 0 and 1)

ink('hsl(0,1,1)') // outputs 'rgba(255,255,255,1)'

optionsObject may contain a format attribute with one of the following values: 'hex', 'cmyk', 'rgb', 'rgba', 'hsl', 'hsla', 'hsva', 'hsv', 'hsba', 'hsb', 'object' If opacity manipulation occurs and an output is chosen that doesn't support opacity, any opacity inputs will be ignored.

ink('hsla(0,1,1,0.3)',{format: 'hex'}) // outputs '#ffffff'
ink('#fff',{format: 'object'}) // outputs {r:255,g:255,b:255,a:1}

optionsObject may contain color weights of values between 0 and 1

ink('#fff',{r: 0.5, g:1, b:0.5}) // outputs 'rgba(127,255,127,1)'

optionsObject may contain saturation or lightness weights

ink('#955',{l: 0.5, s:-0.2,format: 'hex'}) //outputs '#f7f6f6'

optionsObject may contain an alpha value between 0 and 1

ink('#fff',{a: 0.5}) // outputs 'rgba(255,255,255,0.5)'

optionsObject may contain minLightness value between 0 and 1 it will ensure the result is at least as bright as this percent

ink('#333',{minLightness: 0.3}) // outputs 'rgba(91,91,91,1)'

optionsObject may contain maxLightness value between 0 and 1 it will ensure the result is no brighter than this percent

ink('#fff',{maxLightness: 0.8}) // outputs 'rgba(202,202,202,1)'

optionsObject may contain lightness value between 0 and 1 this will override any min or max lightness values sent in if they exists

ink('#fff',{lightness: 0.8}) // outputs 'rgba(202,202,202,1)'

optionsObject may contain minSaturation value between 0 and 1 it will ensure the result is at least as saturated as this percent if the color type input wasn't a hsl(a) value and there wasn't a hue property passed in and the color is a shade of gray then the hue will be 0 by default (red). hue is a value between 0 and 360 and represents degrees

ink('#878787',{minSaturation: 0.32}) // outputs 'rgba(174,97,97,1)'
ink('#878787',{minSaturation: 0.32, hue: 105}) // outputs 'rgba(116,174,97,1)'
ink('#50AF50',{minSaturation: 0.61}) // outputs 'rgba(50,205,50,1)'

optionsObject may contain maxSaturation value between 0 and 1 it will ensure the result is no more saturated than this percent if the color type input wasn't a hsl(a) value and there wasn't a hue property passed in and the color is a shade of gray then the hue will be 0 by default (red). hue is a value between 0 and 360 and represents degrees

ink('#0f0',{maxSaturation: 0.5}) // outputs 'rgba(191,64,64,1)'

optionsObject may contain saturation value between 0 and 1 this will override any min or max saturation values sent in if they exist

ink('#64CE5A',{saturation: 0.17,format: 'hex'}) // outputs '#85A682';

Helper functions

You can use any color string as a source and then specify the output. Merely import the helper function specifically.

import {convert2rgba} from 'ion-cloud';

• convert2rgba(colorString)
• convert2rgb(colorString)
• convert2hsba(colorString)
• convert2hsva(colorString)
• convert2hsb(colorString)
• convert2hsv(colorString)
• convert2hlsa(colorString)
• convert2hsl(colorString)
• convert2hex(colorString)