I always thought it would be awesome to have a colorpicker in browser developer tools. Who wants to guess at hex colors or open up a separate program just to get a color code? Apparently I'm not the only one who thinks a colorpicker inside the developer toolbar would be nice.
Read more →I wanted a JavaScript colorpicker that didn't require images, and that had an API that made sense to me as a developer who has worked with color in a number of applications. I had used existing plugins (which I was quite grateful for), but decided that I would make a smaller, simpler one.
Read more →I needed color parsing for my JavaScript colorpicker. I couldn’t find many small frameworks that handled exactly what I wanted, though. So I wrote my own color parsing library and called it TinyColor.
Read more →When working on my javascript colorpicker, one of the things I thought would be really cool is if you could resize it and have the colorpicker automatically respond to different widths. When I first made it, I had basically defined static widths with the thought that there could be different themes (small, normal, large) which defined different widths.
Read more →I worked on a 10K Apart entry this year. I made a page explaining some of the development, and have my color picker / scheme generator hosted here.
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