# Chroma.js

[Chroma.js](https://gka.github.io/chroma.js/) is a tiny JavaScript library (14kB) for all kinds of color conversions and color scales.

[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/gka/chroma.js.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/gka/chroma.js)

### Usage


Initiate and manipulate colors:

```javascript
chroma('#D4F880').darken().hex();  // #9BC04B
```

Working with color scales is easy, too:

```javascript
scale = chroma.scale(['white', 'red']);
scale(0.5).hex(); // #FF7F7F
```

Lab/Lch interpolation looks better than RGB

```javascript
chroma.scale(['white', 'red']).mode('lab');
```

Custom domains! Quantiles! Color Brewer!!

```javascript
chroma.scale('RdYlBu').domain(myValues, 7, 'quantiles');
```

And why not use logarithmic color scales once in your life?

```javascript
chroma.scale(['lightyellow', 'navy']).domain([1, 100000], 7, 'log');
```

### Like it?

Why not dive into the [interactive documentation](http://gka.github.io/chroma.js/) (there's a [static version](https://github.com/gka/chroma.js/blob/master/docs/src/index.md), too). You can download [chroma.min.js](https://raw.github.com/gka/chroma.js/master/chroma.min.js) or use the [hosted version on cdnjs.com](https://cdnjs.com/libraries/chroma-js).

You can use it in node.js, too!

    npm install chroma-js

Or you can use it in SASS using [chromatic-sass](https://github.com/bugsnag/chromatic-sass)!

### Build instructions

To compile the coffee-script source files you have to run (might have to `npm install` first)

    grunt

To run the tests simply run

    npm test

And to update the documentation (thanks!), just do

	npm install --global markdown-to-html http-server
    cd docs/
    make && make preview

### Similar Libraries / Prior Art

* [Chromatist](https://github.com/jrus/chromatist)
* [GrapeFruit](https://github.com/xav/Grapefruit) (Python)
* [colors.py](https://github.com/mattrobenolt/colors.py) (Python)
* [d3.js](https://github.com/mbostock/d3)


### Author

Chroma.js is written by [Gregor Aisch](http://driven-by-data.net).

### License

Released under [BSD license](http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause).
Versions prior to 0.4 were released under [GPL](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0).

### Further reading

* [How To Avoid Equidistant HSV Colors](https://vis4.net/blog/posts/avoid-equidistant-hsv-colors/)
* [Mastering Multi-hued Color Scales with Chroma.js](https://vis4.net/blog/posts/mastering-multi-hued-color-scales/)

### FAQ

**There have been no commits in X weeks. Is chroma.js dead?**

No! It's just that the author of this library has other things to do than devoting every week of his life to making cosmetic changes to a piece of software that is working just fine as it is, just so that people like you don't feel like it's abandoned and left alone in this world to die. Bugs will be fixed. Some new things will come at some point. Patience.
