Show IH: .colors() - A color picker for people who live in their text editor
Hey everyone!
Today I released my first little app of 2018, it's called .colors() and it's basically a programmer's color picker. It accepts arrays of colors to quickly get an overview of what you're working with and allows you to quickly re-arrange the colors (it even updates the code!)
I built it to scratch my own itch and because I deal with this type of data pretty often in data visualizations. Maybe you find it useful yourself!
You can read about the app more in-depth here: http://www.blechi.at/my-personal-rainbow.html
And you can test it here: https://dotcolors.co
Also .colors() is on ProductHunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/colors-6
Hope you enjoy!~
Richard
Hey, that's quite nice. I would also suggest that you change the text color to black for lighter colors.
If I put white in, that's impossible to read right now 😆
Hi Philipp! Thank you!
I was on the fence about the text color for lighter colors. I was hoping I could offset it a bit by using the text shadow, but seems like it wasn't enough. I'll fix that! 😄
Surprisingly useful to have open while doing front-end work. Would love it if the input wasn't so strict. For example, if I could just paste in some CSS, and it would find the colors and extract them for me.
Hey Courtland! That was exactly the intention of the tool in the first place. Also I feel quite honored that you like it! I'll definitely think about adding something like what you've described. That sounds like it would be a really neat addition!