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Features

• Small: Just 1,5 KB (minified and gzipped). Size Limit controls the size.
• Fast: Built with hooks and functional components only.
• Simple: The interface is straight forward and easy to use.
• Mobile-friendly: Works well on mobile devices and touch screens.
• No dependencies

Live demos

• Website
• CodeSandbox

Install

npm install react-colorful --save

Usage

import ColorPicker from "react-colorful";
import "react-colorful/dist/index.css";

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

Supported color models

The default react-colorful's input/output format is a HEX string (like #ffffff). In case if you need another color model, we provide 5 additional color picker bundles.

import RgbColorPicker from "react-colorful/rgb";
import "react-colorful/dist/index.css";

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

Overriding styles

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

.react-colorful {
  height: 250px;
}
.react-colorful__saturation {
  bottom: 30px;
  border-radius: 3px 3px 0 0;
}
.react-colorful__hue {
  height: 30px;
  border-radius: 0 0 3px 3px;
}
.react-colorful__saturation-pointer {
  border-radius: 5px;
}
.react-colorful__hue-pointer {
  border-radius: 2px;
  width: 15px;
  height: inherit;
}

See examples →

How to paste or type a color?

As you probably noticed the color picker itself doesn't include an input field, but don't 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 ColorPicker from "react-colorful";
+import HexInput from "react-colorful/HexInput";
import "react-colorful/dist/index.css";

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

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's 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	Size (minified)	Size (gzipped)	Dependencies
react-colorful			0
react-color			6
react-input-color			7
rc-color-picker			5

Companies using react-colorful

Resume.io — online resume builder with over 7,800,000 users worldwide

Roadmap

• Additional modules to support different RGB, HSL and HSV color models
• HEX input component
• TypeScript support
• Alpha channel support (RGBA and HSLA color models)
• Preact support