avh4 / elm-color

Standard representation of colors, encouraging sharing between packages. (This replaces elm-lang/core#Color from Elm 0.18.)

elm-color

The this package defines a standard Color type (taking the place of elm-lang/core#Color in Elm 0.18) with the hope that all Elm packages that produce colors and all Elm packages that consume colors will use this type to allow all such packages to easily interoperate for the ultimate benefit of all Elm developers. (If you are a package author and find that the Color type here does not meet your package's needs for passing colors to or from your package, please report an issue so we can improve this package to support your needs.)

Future versions of this package will include additional common conversions and color manipulation functions. If you have used other color packages or written your own color-related functions in the past, please create an issue to describe your use case so we can better design additions to this package.

Example

import Color exposing (Color)
import Html exposing (Html)
import Html.Attributes exposing (style)

view : Color -> Html msg
view foreground =
    let
        hue =
            (Color.toHsla foreground).hue

        borderColor =
            Color.hsla hue 0.75 0.5 0.8
    in
    Html.div
        [ style "background-color" (Color.toCssString Color.lightOrange)
        , style "color" (Color.toCssString foreground)
        , style "border-color" (Color.toCssString borderColor)
        ]
        [ Html.text "(ᵔᴥᵔ)" ]

Built-in colors

This package also provides an "aesthetically reasonable" set of common colors.

Roadmap

• Initial release: defines color type and basic conversion functions
• 1.1.0: implement common color manipulation functions