welcome to emerald!
emerald is pretty simple. I just made it mainly to combine three of my favorite color tools — monochrome, contrast-ratio, and coolors.
you can install this, by the way. it's a pwa — get it at jpegzilla.com/emerald.
things I'll be adding in the coming months / weeks:
- palette exporting (as images, css, scss)
- sharing color combinations through url params (easy enough)
- full palette generation and randomization (a feature that coolors has)...coming soon
- preview extra shades of current colors
- more compact view for sliders
- drag / drop to move pigments around in a palette (rly hard :(...)
- refactor my filthy, nasty scss
- settings (exclude certain color ranges, change randomization parameters...?)
- show approximate css color name even if the css color isn't exactly the same (this is what I'm having trouble with, but sort of works)
- refactor my gross javascript (looking at you, palette handler script)
- add accessibility features such as simpler keyboard controls
- there are issues with re-rendering the palette export canvas at certain viewport breakpoints that I literally have no clue how to fix and I can't tell what's causing them. I might fix those someday
- make another color preview box that shows a nearby wcag aaa color combination
- refactoring to use webpack
- just make it nicer to use on a phone (ugh)
- you should be able to type in the hex value
- add more comments
- improve gradient palette generation
- add ability to generate entire palette from two colors
- add palette generation settings: contrast ratio maximum, exclusion range
patch notes: v0110 03092019
- added more compact sliders
- fixed the look of the palettes
- made it easier to figure out where palettes are
- added randomization params (set contrast ratio range)
- added color swap button
- added palette operations: naming, deleting...exporting coming soon
- added color shade preview: shows 12 alternative shades of the current colors and their hex codes
patch notes: v0111 10132019
- added palette exporting. current options: image, css, scss
- made sliders prettier and other ui improvements
- added the ability to share color combinations through url. syntax:
jpegzilla.com/emerald?bg=#200e40&text=#d6a508(pass colors as hex values). maybe entire palettes are next? - improved performance
- improved layout on smaller screens
- added undo / redo buttons (stores previous color combinations) ((beta))
- added dark mode and set it on by default
- clicking on "add palette" no longer creates a palette with one empty pigment in it
- color palettes and settings like dark / light mode now persist through reloads via localstorage
patch notes: v0112
- fixed the palette controller that was giving me grey hairs
patch notes: v0113
- emerald's interface now looks nicer on small little laptop screens (think <= 1380px)
- fixed weird bug where if you exported a palette it would sometimes generate css variables for the wrong colors
- fixed bug where the fancy color name would appear in the colorfield while exporting a palette
- fixed bug where the "press space to randomize" text would sometimes be the wrong color
- fixed issue in firefox where you can't export color palettes as images because firefox was blocking the image download prompt
patch notes: v0114 09202019
- fixed an issue with palette exporting
patch notes: v0115
- added ability to enter hex colors manually
- fixed (final? please?) bug with palette creation
- layout improvements
- fixed bug with color names getting messed up after trying to export a palette
- added palette generation button (that's a surprise tool that can help us later)
patch notes: v0116
- added full palette generation
- added palette generation types: gradient, monochrome, and analogous (wip)
- added generation parameters: color amount and modification factor (affects amount of hue / saturation shifting done during palette generation)
patch notes: v0117
- improved all palette generation by making palettes over five pigments stay in one palette instead of overflowing to two palettes