Chroma and Spectrum

[mouse0270]

Spectrum comes with a built-in library called tinyColor for color manipulation. Is there a reason to be using both libraries?

Not really a bug, was just curious as it might help cut back on some unnecessary code? Unless chroma does something TinyColor can't do. But I believe they do very similar things.

[mclemente]

Chroma was used in this project before Spectrum was introduced, so I guess the original dev didn't knew about TinyColor. Personally, I had no idea about it. Chroma's function in this project is to return a gradient of colors based on either Bézier curve, RGB, HSL or LCH. TinyColor might be able to do that, but I'm not sure if it would be a simple change.

[mouse0270]

Oh okay, I can take a look and see if I can replicate that feature in TinyColor, if so it will help cut back on libraries if possible.

[mclemente]

I've tried some changes last night and my conclusion is that Chroma is needed because Tinycolor doesn't make gradients, and its sub-library, Tinygradient, does it but doesn't support the Bézier and LCH.

In the end I'd have the same number of libraries and less color options. I am not sure how many people use the other color modes, but there's no point in doing so if there would still be two libraries on the project.

Other findings:

• The Colorjs library was considered, but it wouldn't reduce the number of libraries and it doesn't seem to support Bézier curves either at the time.
• Updating Grapick 0.1.7 to 0.1.10 resulted in issues where the latest Grapick.getColor() returns a "rgba(r, g, b, a)" string, which broke Chroma because it works with "#hexes" or [r, g, b, a], but not a rgba string.