image-palette-core

The core logic for parsing a palette from image data. You can use this if you want an imperative API for generating a palette. If you want to use it with React you can use react-image-palette

Install

npm install --save image-palette-core

Usage

The main export of the package is a getImagePalette function which takes an image and returns an accessible color palette representing the most dominant colors in the image.

import getImagePalette from 'image-palette-core'

const img = new Image();
img.src = 'foo.jpg';
img.onload = function() {
  // The image *must* be loaded before calling `getImagePalette`
  const palette = getImagePalette(img);
}

⚠️ Keep in mind that the image will be loaded into a canvas and parsed as data, so you should only use images from trusted origins.

The Palette

The parsed palette will have the following shape:

type Palette = {
  backgroundColor: String,
  color: String,
  alternativeColor: String
}

• backgroundColor will be the most dominant color in the image.
• color will be the color that looks the best overlayed over backgroundColor.
• alternativeColor will be the second best color. If there are only two colors parsed, it will default to color.

Both alternativeColor and color are guaranteed to meet the minimum contrast ratio requirements when overlayed with backgroundColor, but overlaying color on alternativeColor (or vice-versa) is a bad idea as they will often have very similar contrast levels.