react-colorful

Features

• 🗜 Small: Just 2,8 KB gzipped (13x lighter than react-color).
• 🌳 Tree-shakeable: Only the parts you use will be imported into your app's bundle.
• 🚀 Fast: Built with hooks and functional components only.
• 🛡 Bulletproof: Written in strict TypeScript and has 100% test coverage.
• 🗂 Typed: Ships with types included
• 😍 Simple: The interface is straightforward and easy to use.
• 👫 Cross-browser: Works out-of-the-box for most browsers, regardless of version.
• 📲 Mobile-friendly: Supports mobile devices and touch screens.
• 💬 Accessible: Follows the WAI-ARIA guidelines to support users of assistive technologies.
• 💨 No dependencies

Live demos

• Website
• HEX Color Picker (CodeSandbox)
• RGBA Color Picker (CodeSandbox)

Table of Contents

• Getting Started
• Supported Color Models
• Customization
• How to paste or type a color?
• Code Recipes
• TypeScript Support
• Usage with Preact
• Browser Support
• Why react-colorful?
• Projects using react-colorful
• Ports

Getting Started

npm install react-colorful

import { HexColorPicker } from "react-colorful";

const YourComponent = () => {
  const [color, setColor] = useState("#aabbcc");
  return <HexColorPicker color={color} onChange={setColor} />;
};

Supported props

The onChangeEnd callback is useful for undo/redo, saving to a database, or other expensive operations you don't want to run on every intermediate value:

const YourComponent = () => {
  const [color, setColor] = useState("#aabbcc");
  return (
    <HexColorPicker
      color={color}
      onChange={setColor}
      onChangeEnd={(color) => saveToDatabase(color)}
    />
  );
};

All pickers also accept every property that a regular div tag does (className, style, aria-label, etc.).

Supported Color Models

We provide 12 additional color picker components for different color models, unless your app needs a HEX string as an input/output format.

import { RgbColorPicker } from "react-colorful";

const YourComponent = () => {
  const [color, setColor] = useState({ r: 50, g: 100, b: 150 });
  return <RgbColorPicker color={color} onChange={setColor} />;
};

Customization

The easiest way to tweak react-colorful is to create another stylesheet to override the default styles.

.your-component .react-colorful {
  height: 240px;
}
.your-component .react-colorful__saturation {
  border-radius: 4px 4px 0 0;
}
.your-component .react-colorful__hue {
  height: 40px;
  border-radius: 0 0 4px 4px;
}
.your-component .react-colorful__hue-pointer {
  width: 12px;
  height: inherit;
  border-radius: 0;
}

See examples →

How to paste or type a color?

As you probably noticed the color picker itself does not include an input field, but do not worry if you need one. react-colorful is a modular library that allows you to build any picker you need. Since v2.1 we provide an additional component that works perfectly in pair with our color picker.

import { HexColorPicker, HexColorInput } from "react-colorful";

const YourComponent = () => {
  const [color, setColor] = useState("#aabbcc");
  return (
    <div>
      <HexColorPicker color={color} onChange={setColor} />
      <HexColorInput color={color} onChange={setColor} />
    </div>
  );
};

<HexColorInput color={color} onChange={setColor} placeholder="Type a color" prefixed alpha />

Code Recipes

• Popover picker
• Preset colors (color squares)
• Picker that accepts any color input
• Text field to be able to type/copy/paste a color
• Custom styles and layout
• Value debouncing (consider using onChangeEnd instead for many use cases)

TypeScript Support

react-colorful supports TypeScript and ships with types in the library itself; no need for any other install.

import { HslColorPicker, HslColor } from "react-colorful";

const myHslValue: HslColor = { h: 0, s: 0, l: 0 };

Usage with Preact

react-colorful will work flawlessly with Preact out-of-the-box if you are using WMR, Preact-CLI, NextJS with Preact, or a few other tools/boilerplates thanks to aliasing.

If you are using another solution, please refer to the Aliasing React to Preact section of the Preact documentation.

import React from "react";

declare global {
    namespace React {
        interface ReactElement {
            nodeName: any;
            attributes: any;
            children: any;
        }
    }
}

Browser Support

It would be an easier task to list all of the browsers and versions that react-colorful does not support! We regularly test against browser versions going all the way back to 2013 and this includes IE11.

react-colorful works out-of-the-box for most browsers, regardless of version, and only requires an Object.assign polyfill be provided for full IE11 support.

Why react-colorful?

Today each dependency drags more dependencies and increases your project’s bundle size uncontrollably. But size is very important for everything that intends to work in a browser.

react-colorful is a simple color picker for those who care about their bundle size and client-side performance. It is fast and lightweight because:

• has no dependencies (no risks in terms of vulnerabilities, no unexpected bundle size changes);
• built with hooks and functional components only (no classes and polyfills for them);
• ships only a minimal amount of manually optimized color conversion algorithms (while most of the popular pickers import entire color manipulation libraries that increase the bundle size by more than 10 KB and make your app slower).

To show you the problem that react-colorful is trying to solve, we have performed a simple benchmark (using bundlephobia.com) against popular React color picker libraries:

Name	Bundle size	Bundle size (gzip)	Dependencies
react-colorful
react-color
react-input-color
rc-color-picker

Projects using react-colorful

Storybook — the most widely used open-source tool for developing UI components

Resume.io — online resume builder with over 9,400,000 users worldwide

Wireflow.co — free tool for creating modern user flow prototypes

MagicPattern.design — unique geometric pattern generator

Viewst.com — online tool for designing, creating and automating ad campaigns

Omatsuri.app — progressive web application with a lot of different frontend focused tools

Leva — open source extensible GUI panel made for React

Composable — online tool for creating custom vector illustrations

snappify.io — powerful design tool to create and manage beautiful images of your code snippets

Backers and sponsors

Ports

Not using React or Preact? Not a problem! Check out the list of react-colorful ports adapted to your favourite framework or technology of choice:

• vanilla-colorful — a react-colorful reimplementation in vanilla Custom Elements, generously ported by @web-padavan.

• angular-colorful — a react-colorful rewritten for use with the Angular framework, lovingly ported by @fil0157.

If your port is not in the list, reach us out via GitHub issues.