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77 lines
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# Chroma.js
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Chroma.js is a tiny JavaScript library (8.5kB) for all kinds of color conversions and color scales.
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### Usage
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Initiate and manipulate colors:
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```javascript
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chroma('#D4F880').darken().hex(); // #9BC04B
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```
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Working with color scales is easy, too:
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```javascript
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scale = chroma.scale(['white', 'red']);
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scale(0.5).hex(); // #FF7F7F
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```
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Lab/Lch interpolation looks better than than RGB
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```javascript
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chroma.scale(['white', 'red']).mode('lab');
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```
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Custom domains! Quantiles! Color Brewer!!
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```javascript
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chroma.scale('RdYlBu').domain(myValues, 7, 'quantiles');
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```
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And why not use logarithmic color scales once in your life?
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```javascript
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chroma.scale(['lightyellow', 'navy']).domain([1, 100000], 7, 'log');
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```
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### Like it?
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Why not dive into the [API docs](https://github.com/gka/chroma.js/blob/master/doc/api.md) (quite short actually), and download [chroma.min.js](https://raw.github.com/gka/chroma.js/master/chroma.min.js) right away.
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You can use it in node.js, too!
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npm install chroma-js
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### Build instructions
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To compile the coffee-script source files you have to run ``build.sh``.
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To run the tests simply run
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vows test/*.coffee
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### Similar Libraries / Prior Art
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* [Chromatist](https://github.com/jrus/chromatist)
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* [GrapeFruit](http://code.google.com/p/grapefruit/) (Python)
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* [colors.py](https://github.com/mattrobenolt/colors.py) (Python)
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* [d3.js](https://github.com/mbostock/d3)
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### Author
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Chroma.js is written by [Gregor Aisch](http://driven-by-data.net).
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### License
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Released under [BSD license](http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause).
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Versions prior to 0.4 were released under [GPL](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0).
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### Known issues
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* HSI color conversion (experimental) produces weird results sometimes
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