When comparing Chroma.js vs TinyColor, the Slant community recommends TinyColor for most people. In the question“What are the best JavaScript libraries for color manipulation?” TinyColor is ranked 1st while Chroma.js is ranked 2nd. The most important reason people chose TinyColor is:
TinyColor has several color combination functions for getting various pallets from a base color, with: `analogous`, `monochromatic`, `splitcomplement`, `triad`, `tetrad`, and `complement`
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Pros
Pro Powerful color scale API
The scale API of Chroma is particularly robust and makes Chroma stand out in regards to creating color pallets and visualizations. With the scale API you define a custom scale to match your data set, and define stop points to create hard points when you want the color to change on a threshold. It also supports non linear scales like log, k-means, and quantiles.
Pro LAB and Hue-Chroma-Lightness support creates nicer color scales
Chroma is unique in its support for more advanced color spaces like LAB and HCL which can create more natural looking color spaces than the standard RGB and HSL variant.
Pro Comes with many color pallet methods
TinyColor has several color combination functions for getting various pallets from a base color, with:
analogous
, monochromatic
, splitcomplement
, triad
, tetrad
, and complement
Cons
Con Doesn't have many color manipulation methods
Chroma has a relatively limited set of color manipulation methods, containing: 'alpha', 'darken', 'brighten', 'saturate', 'desaturate', and 'luminance', but missing important methods like hue manipulation, whiteness, greyscale, and negation.
Con Has java style getters and setters
The getters and setters in tiny color use the "get", "set", or "to" naming convention, whereas the more common javascript convention is to get when no parameters are provided, and set when a parameter is provided.