husl_harmony

Use the HUSL library to generate more effective and better balanced color harmonies.

Example

By example, asking husl_harmony for the first 14 swatch sets for color #3D7AFA yields these:

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That palette set is generated by this code:

husl_harmony is mostly meant for code use, and primarily ships back arrays of hex-6 colors of the form ['#aabbcc', '#ddeeff']. Its results are best when used with tertiary, mid-saturation colors (colors where none of the three RGB color channels are near-max or near-zero.)

husl_harmony also includes a harmonious gray balancer with color overlay calculation, which is great for making color-hinted websites.

window.onload = function() { 
 
    var husl_harmony = require('husl_harmony'),
        swatch_div   = husl_harmony.make_all_swatches('#3D7AFA');
 
    document.body.innerHTML = '<h1>All swatch sets matching <tt>#3D7AFA</tt></h1>';
    document.body.appendChild(swatch_div); 
 
}

Color swatch sets will be balanced in hue, saturation, lightness, and oriented to the source color.

ES6 Usage

// let's get the analogous-7 matches of our color, a dark blue, #0026ff
import {from_rgb} from './husl_harmony.js';
console.log( from_rgb('#0026FF', 'analogous-7') );

The result should be

["#005e53", "#005c64", "#00597b", "#0026FF", "#8e00a9", "#9c007e", "#a50051"]

ES5 Usage

// see dist/index.html for a working example
var hh = require('husl_harmony');
console.log( hh.from_rgb('#0026FF', 'analogous-7') );

The result should be

["#005e53", "#005c64", "#00597b", "#0026FF", "#8e00a9", "#9c007e", "#a50051"]

Harmonies

Currently, the library supports sixteen harmonies:

1. Monochromatic
2. Complementary
3. Split complementary
4. Double complementary
5. L-double complementary
6. Triad
7. Complementary triad
8. Square
9. Tetrad
10. L-tetrad
11. Pentagon
12. Hexagon
13. Analogous 3
14. Analogous 5
15. Analogous 7
16. Complementary analogous

It's easy and encouraged to add more! 😄