Project: 256 Color Matcher

Project overview

This is a tiny web app for picking the closest standard 8-bit (256) color from a RGB or hex color input. Target audience includes terminal tinkerers (I build the app for this use for myself) and anyone working with ANSI colors.

Features

• Pure HTML, CSS and JS — no frameworks
• Hex and RGB modes (updates color texts and inputs)
• 18 kb bundle size
• 3 npm dependencies
• Bundled with webpack
• Tests for all non-vendor library modules (jest for test running)
• Last color saved to localStorage and 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. 256-color-matcher was created as a tool to make this process easier.