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Color libraries and color spaces

Libraries

• TinyColor [site]
• Chroma [site] [portfolio]
• color
• color-js
• Colors.js [site]: Utility functions
• W3Schools Color Converter [source]: Converts between many color formats
• KolorWheel.js [site]
• clrs [site]

Libraries with other functionality

• colorspaces.js
• sweep.js [site]: Proper transitions through HSL and HSLuv spaces
• Please JS [site]: Creates random pleasing colors
• Colorify.js [site]: Extracts dominant color from image
• Color Thief [site]: Grabs color palette from an image

Lists

• Color libraries on JSter
• What are the best JavaScript libraries for color manipulation? by Slant

Color spaces

• RGB
• HSL
• HSV
• HCL (Hue-Chroma-Lightness) ¹
• CMYK
• CIE XYZ
• CIE Lab ¹
• CIELUV
• CIE LCh_uv
• HSLuv
• YIQ ²
• YUV
• Lab color space

See Wikipedia and “Color Spaces for Human Beings” for more.

1. https://www.vis4.net/blog/posts/avoid-equidistant-hsv-colors/ ↩ ↩²

2. https://codepen.io/timseverien/pen/qjKYQK ↩

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