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JavaScript Color Parsing – TinyColor

I threw together a color parsing library to help make my JavaScript colorpicker as small and accurate as possible. It is called TinyColor. One of the main goals is a small footprint – it clocks in at 8.98KB (3.41KB gzipped).

I have written in more detail about this on my TinyColor page. In it, I talk about the Color conversion, input recognition, color manipulation, scheme (combination) generation, and more.

This entry was posted on Monday, January 9th, 2012 at 2:47 pm and is filed under All, Open Source, Plugins. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “JavaScript Color Parsing – TinyColor”

  1. 0i0 (lior hakim) Says:
    January 16th, 2012 at 7:09 pm

    very nice!

    check oute this patteren to scrap a few more bytes for places like line 185
    from

    switch(max) {
            case r: h = (g - b) / d + (g < b ? 6 : 0); break;
            case g: h = (b - r) / d + 2; break;
            case b: h = (r - g) / d + 4; break;
        }

    to

    h = max == r ? (g - b) / d + (g < b ? 6 : 0):
    max == g ? (b - r) / d + 2:
    max == b ? (r - g) / d + 4:
    h;

    better looking and less code

  2. Brian Says:
    January 20th, 2012 at 9:56 am

    Yes, many of the conversion functions were modified from other sources, so I didn’t make many changes besides changing the bounding of the parameters (normalizing the input to a 0-1 scale).

    I usually avoid nested ternary expressions because it is hard to visually parse them out (at least when reading the code months later) so I end up explicitly parenthesizing the nesting, which makes it a little more verbose.

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