haus-colour-names

31,900 named colours as data. No dependencies, no matching logic.

The dataset is meodai/color-names. This package carries it and normalises the hexes; the perceptual matching lives in haus-colour-utils, so a project that wants CIEDE2000 or WCAG contrast does not install 764KB of names to get them.

npm install haus-colour-names haus-colour-utils

import { colourNameEntries } from 'haus-colour-names'
import { createNamedColourMatcher } from 'haus-colour-utils'

const nameColour = createNamedColourMatcher(colourNameEntries())

nameColour('#4f84ba', 3)
// [ { name: 'Blue Vault', hex: '#4e83bd', distance: 0.7 }, … ]

haus-colour-utils bundles 289 basic colour terms and uses them by default, so reach for this package when you want the exhaustive set.

API

| Export | Type | What it is | |---|---|---| | colourNameEntries() | () => ColourNameEntry[] | The dataset as { hex, name }, hexes normalised to #rrggbb. Built on first call, then reused. | | colourNames | Record<string, string> | The raw map. Keys are six hex digits with no #. | | COLOUR_NAME_COUNT | number | 31,900. |

Licence

MIT for the package. The dataset is MIT, from meodai/color-names.