Color Shade Generator

Generate shades of color from a single hex color.

Installation

npm i @nousantx/color-generator

Usage

import { generateColors } from '@nousantx/color-generator'

const colorShades = generateColors({
  option: {
    format: 'object2',
    output: 'hex'
  },
  color: {
    primary: '#ccf654',
    secondary: '#a55de7'
  }
})

console.log(colorShades)

API

generateColors(options)

Generates color shades based on the provided options.

Parameters

• options: An object containing the following properties:
  • option: An object with the following properties:
    • format: The output format. Default is 'css'.
    • output: The color format. Default is 'hex'.
  • color: An object where keys are color names and values are base color HEX values.

Returns

Depending on the format option, it returns CSS variables, SCSS variables, a JavaScript object, or an array of color shades.

Options

option.format

Specifies the output format of the generated color shades.

• Type: 'css' | 'scss' | 'object' | 'object2' | 'array'
• Default: 'css'

Format Types:

• 'css': Returns CSS custom properties (variables).
• 'scss': Returns SCSS variables.
• 'object': Returns a nested object with color names as keys and shade values as nested objects.
• 'object2': Returns a flat object with color-shade combinations as keys.
• 'array': Returns an object with color names as keys and arrays of shade values.

option.output

Specifies the color format of the generated shades.

• Type: 'hex' | 'rgb' | 'hsl'
• Default: 'hex'

color

An object where keys are color names and values are base color HEX values.

• Type: { [colorName: string]: string }

Example Output

// With format: 'object2' and output: 'hex'
{
  'primary-50': '#f4fde6',
  'primary-100': '#e8fccc',
  // ... other primary shades
  'secondary-50': '#f7f0fe',
  'secondary-100': '#efe1fd',
  // ... other secondary shades
}

Notes

• The generator creates 11 shades for each color (50, 100, 200, ..., 900, 950).
• Ensure that the input HEX colors are valid 6-digit HEX codes which not too dark or too light (e.g., '#ccf654').

License

MIT