256 Color Matcher
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Project overview
This is a simple web app written in pure HTML, CSS and JS for finding the
closest matching standard 256 (8bit) color from a given input color. This is
useful if you’re styling e.g. xterm and need to find the closest color in the
palette.
Features
- Pure HTML, CSS and JS — no frameworks
- Hex and RGB modes (updates color texts and inputs)
- 18kb bundle size
- 3 npm dependencies
- Bundled with webpack
- Tests for all non-vendor library modules (
jest) - Last color saved to
localStorageand retrieved on next visit
Project story
I went through a huge terminal phase. I still love the terminal and do pretty
much everything I can do on the command line. I find it often much faster than
reaching for a GUI. I had a very elaborate ViM setup at one point, and took
styling pretty seriously. I wanted to be able to get standard 256 colors close
to certain palettes, but wanted a quick way to find these. Thus
256-color-matcher was born