useImageColor

Grab color palette from any image using this hook

How does it work?

It renders your image on a canvas and then generates its palette of colors using color quantization.

Includes Image Component

This image component renders a placeholder color while your original images are loading.

Before loading big images (color from smaller images)

After loading big images:

Live Sandbox demo:

Live Sandbox Demo

How does this image component work?

You must provide src (your original image) and a thumbnail (smaller image). As soon as the thumbnail is loaded the skeleton becomes visible using its dominant color. In the meantime, your original image continues loading, finally, when your original image arrives, it replaces the skeleton.

Installation:

npm install use-image-color

The hook:

Usage:

import useImageColor from 'use-image-color'

export function Card() {
  const { colors } = useImageColor(url, { cors: true, colors: 5 })
  return (...);
}

Hook params:

useImageColor(url: String, options: OptionsObject)

The component:

Usage:

import { Image } from 'use-image-color'

export function Card() {
  return (
    <Image src={url} thumbnail={thumbnail} />
  );
}

Component params: