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Features

• Small: Just 1,6 KB (minified and gzipped). Size Limit controls the size.
• 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 covered by 20+ tests.
• 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 { HexColorPicker } from "react-colorful";
import "react-colorful/dist/index.css";

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

Supported color models

We provide 5 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";
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 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";
import "react-colorful/dist/index.css";

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

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 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.

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	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
• Rewrite the codebase to TypeScript
• Alpha channel support (RGBA and HSLA color models)