color-parse

Parse CSS color strings, with added support for other color models not included in the CSS specification.

Usage

npm install @colorsuite/color-parse

import { parseColor } from '@szydlovski/color-parse';

parseColor('#fabfab66') // [ [ 250, 191, 171, 0.4 ], 'rgb' ]
parseColor('hsl(270,20%,50%)') // [ [ 270, 20, 50, 1 ], 'hsl' ]

// # in hexes is optional
parseColor('fff') // [ [ 255, 255, 255, 1 ], 'rgb' ]

// whitespace is ignored
parseColor('# a 5 a 5 a 5') // [ [ 165, 165, 165, 1 ], 'rgb' ]

// rgb/rgba and hsl/hsla are treated as aliases
parseColor('rgba(120,70,70,0.45)') // [ [ 120, 70, 70, 0.45 ], 'rgb' ]
parseColor('rgb(120,70,70,0.45)') // [ [ 120, 70, 70, 0.45 ], 'rgb' ]

// if the color is not valid
parseColor('not a valid color') // [undefined, undefined]

// also available as cjs
const { parseColor } = require('@szydlovski/color-parse/cjs');

API

parseColor(colorString)

Arguments:

• colorString - string - the string to parse for colors

Returns:

• [colorArray, colorSpace] - array - a tuple containing
  • colorArray - array - containing parsed color values, i.e. [255,255,255]
  • colorSpace - string - denoting the parsed color space, i.e. rgb

Throws:

• TypeError - if the first argument is not a string

Specification and compatibility

• Parsing of hex strings with alpha values (i.e. #ffffff00 or #fff0) is supported, and # in hexes is optional
• CSS only officially supports hexes, rbg and hsl. This library will also identify hsv, hsb (an alias of hsv) and hwb colors.
• CSS treats rgb as an alias for rgba and vice versa (the same goes for hsl and hsla), which is why this library will also parse alpha values from rgb and hsl, and add a default alpha of 1 if it's not present.
• Parsed values are not validated or clamped to any value range.