Keep a watchful eye on your css colors.
CSS Colorguard
Every CSS project starts out with good intentions, but inevitably, one too many people eye-dropper
colors into nooks and crannies that you never knew existed. CSS Colorguard helps you maintain the
color set that you want, and warns you when colors you’ve added are too similar to ones that already
exist. Naturally, it’s all configurable to your tastes.
How it works
Colorguard uses the CIEDE2000 algorithm to determine
the similarity of each of the colors in your CSS file. This algorithm is quite complex, but is used
in the broadcasting community as the best approximation of human ability to discern differences in
color. RGB on the other hand, is pretty bad at representing differences in color purely based on the
numerical difference of the hex values.
Luckily, someone else already implemented CIEDE2000, so I
didn’t have to. Tight. Cause this thing is mathy as hell.
Alpha Transparency
Currently, alpha transparency is just stripped from the colors. So rgb(0, 0, 0) exactly matches
rgba(0,0,0,0.5). This is usually fine unless someone is alphatransparency-happy and uses it for
darkening and lightening colors too often. It could probably be its own check in the future that
there aren’t too many different alpha transparencies of the same color. This is not currently a
thing though.
API
colorguard.process(css, [options]).then(function(result) {})
options
ignore
Type: array
Specify hex codes of colors that you would like to ignore completely.
Use with caution.
threshold
Type: number
Default: 3
0 through 100. Lower values are more precise; the default is 3 but that’s
mostly personal opinion.
whitelist
Type: array
Pass an array of color pairs to ignore:
[['#000000', '#010101']]
allowEquivalentNotation
Type: boolean
Default: false
By default, colorguard will complain if identical colors are represented with different notations.
For example, #000, #000000, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0), and black. If you want to permit these
equivalent notations, set this option to true.
postcss([ colorguard(opts) ])
CSS Colorguard can be consumed as a PostCSS plugin. See the
documentation for examples for
your environment.
Build Time
CSS Colorguard can be used in conjunction with other javascript build systems, such as:
CLI
CSS Colorguard also ships with a CLI app. To see the available options, just run:
$ colorguard --help
Install
With npm, to get the command do:
npm install -g colorguard
To get the library & PostCSS plugin, do:
npm install colorguard
Thanks
License
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