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colourspace

Technically speaking, we’re dealing with color systems, not spaces. But since this is a hex-driven project, I couldn’t pass up such a great name. 🚀

Main Functionality

Convert colours between spaces (hex, RGB, HSL, OKLab, OKLch) and generate modern ready-to-paste CSS syntax.

Installation

# install.packages("pak")
pak::pak("iamyannc/colourspace")

Who is this for?

Anyone doing awesome Shiny apps or Quarto dashboards that wants to spice things up with better colors, or any UI/UX/Web professional that wants to convert from one colour space to another, or produce a modern CSS syntax programmatically for any color out there. 🎨

Quick examples

library(colourspace)

# Convert hex to RGB
hex_to_rgb("#ff5733")
#>   r   g   b 
#> 255  87  51

# Get modern CSS output (oklch is the default)
to_css("#ff5733")
#> [1] "oklch(67.267% 0.208 37.377 / 1)"

# With transparency
to_css(c("coral", "teal"), alpha = 0.8)
#> [1] "oklch(72.556% 0.159 40.856 / 0.8)" "oklch(54.305% 0.098 194.764 / 0.8)"

# Reverse lookup: hex to colour name
hex_to_name("#c93f38")
#> [1] "100 Mph"

# Fallback to nearest named colour (default behaviour)
hex_to_name("#a1b2c3")
#> Warning: Fallback to nearest lab name for 1 colour(s).
#> [1] "Cadet Grey"

# Disable fallback to get NA for unknown colours
hex_to_name("#a1b2c3", fallback = FALSE)
#> [1] NA

# Low level function (great usecase for applying different spaces!)
convert_colourspace(value = "f", from = "hex", to = "name")
[1] "White"

Colour spaces

License

USE IT AS YOU PLEASE ♥️

• This package was inspired by Antti Rask’s col2hex2col.
  • both data files were adjusted from Antti’s prior implementation. Thanks!
• All the heavy lifting of matching color names to hex codes was handled by David Aerne in the meodai/color-names project.

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.
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