tesk9/palette/1.0.1

Exploratory package (read: API very subject to change & breakage) for playing with different approaches to modeling and working with Color.

I'm interested in exploring generative accessible palettes, in addition to playing with validating accessibility of existing palettes.

Getting started

Suppose you want to build a palette.

You might be thinking in terms of the color wheel, and in terms of colors relationship to each other on that wheel. Suppose we want to find 2 colors that are evenly spaced from each other on the color wheel.

import Color exposing (Color)
import Color.Generator

myPalette : (Color, Color, Color)
myPalette =
    let
        red =
            Color.fromHSL 0 100 50

        (color1, color2) =
            Color.triadic red
    in
        (red, color1, color2)

Or maybe we want a monochromatic color scheme -- the various tints and lightnesses available from a starting hue.

import Color exposing (Color)
import Color.Generator

myPalette : List Color
myPalette =
    let
        red =
            Color.fromRGB ( 255, 0, 0 )

        stepSize =
            -- how many degrees of lightness apart each step should be
            10

    in
        Color.Generator.monochromatic stepSize red

Developing

Examples

cd examples
elm reactor
open http://localhost:8000/src/Main.elm

Running tests

I couldn't get the tests working on travis ci properly :( But there are tests!

npm install
npm test

Maybe TODOs

• What other common web palettes would be helpful to have available? are there others?
• Transparency -- rgba and hsla. worth adding?
• API -- other color formats & conversions?