v0.6.0 Beta 1

[LeaVerou]

We hear you, it’s been a while, and v0.6.0 is long overdue. Assuming any significant issues come up in this beta, we plan to release a stable v0.6.0 in 1-2 weeks or so.

⬇️ 84 million downloads!

Color.js is quickly becoming the de facto color handling library for JS:
it has now been downloaded over 84 million times on npm,
a number that is rapidly increasing, at the rate of nearly 3 million downloads per week!

As a reminder, we recently started an Open Collective so you can fund Color.js's development.
If your company depends on Color.js in any way, it is in your best interest to ensure its future is sustainable.

Changes

Note

This only includes the changes after v0.6.0 Alpha 1.
Check out the v0.6.0 Alpha 1 release notes for changes since 0.5.2

API changes for DX

• A common request has been a function that gracefully parses colors, without throwing if there is an error. This version adds exactly that: tryColor()/Color.try() (by @LeaVerou in Add tryColor()/Color.try() for graceful parsing and complex colors #664)
• A common use case was to use the procedural API for tree-shaking and performance, but still import all color spaces that Color.js supports. This is now made much easier, through the new spaces export of /fn and the new /spaces top-level export. (by @LeaVerou in Improve procedural API for all color spaces use case, rel #661 #663, with types by @MysteryBlokHed in [types] Add types for spaces and src exports #668)
• New /src export to import Color.js's source code directly (by @LeaVerou in Improve procedural API for all color spaces use case, rel #661 #663, with types by @MysteryBlokHed in [types] Add types for spaces and src exports #668)

API changes for spec compliance

• Change color(ictcp ...) to ictcp(...) per CSS Color HDR (by @svgeesus in [spaces/ictcp] Change color(ictcp ...) to ictcp(...) per CSS Color HDR #646)
• Change color(jzazbz ...) to jzazbz(...), and color(jzczhz ...) to jzczhz(...) per CSS Color HDR (by @svgeesus in [spaces/jzazbz] Change color(jzazbz ...) to jzazbz(...), same for jzczhz #647)
• Unprefix display-p3-linear since it is now in CSS Color 4 (i.e. color(--display-p3-linear ...) → color(display-p3-linear ...) (by @svgeesus in c90fe38). Not a breaking change, as both are still supported.
• Use gamma 2.40 for display-referred rec2020; rename previous implementation as scene-referred --rec2020-oetf (by @svgeesus in Deploying changes to color(rec2020 ...) #669)
• Make HSL parsing spec-compliant (by @kleinfreund in fix: hsl parsing not being spec-compliant #650)

Bug fixes

• CAM16 and HCT hues are now correctly set to null when chroma is near zero (by @facelessuser in Set CAM16 and HCT hues to null when chroma is near zero #644)
• Fix issues with creating custom color spaces (by @sidewayss and @LeaVerou in 2 fixes for type="custom" ColorSpaces #628)
• Don't clamp negative values in Absolute XYZ D65 (by @svgeesus in jz**** color spaces have NaN where all other spaces have numbers #613)
• Adjust calculations in Jzazbz and fix Jzazbz and JzCzhz reference ranges (by @svgeesus in Jzazbz and JzCzhz reference ranges are too large. #634 Fix jzazbz #635)
• Ensure Prophoto and Rec2020 spaces handle negative values (by @lloydk in Ensure Prophoto and Rec2020 spaces handle negative values #640)
• Don't throw for unknown coords when space accessors are used (by @LeaVerou)
• In toGamut(), better handle the case when JND equals 0 (by @facelessuser in Handle JND == 0 case better #659)

Improvements to types

• Overload multiplyMatrices types and update implementation to pass all tests (by @epsilonError in [types] overload multiplyMatrices types #580 [multiplyMatrices] Update implementation to pass all tests #631)
• Fix CAM16 and HCT type errors (by @lloydk and @MysteryBlokHed in Fix cam16 and hct type errors #622)
• Fix different types and type errors (by @lloydk in Fix types and type errors #642)
• Fix space accessor types to allow null (by @lloydk)
• Fix return types of the darken()/lighten() functions on the Color class (by @lloydk in Fix return types of the darken/lighten functions on the Color class #654)

For contributors

• Testsuite & test coverage improvements (by @epsilonError in [tests] Add more matrix multiply tests #594 and @svgeesus in f02ce7f)

Full Changelog: v0.6.0-alpha.1...v0.6.0-beta.1

New Contributors

• @sidewayss made their first contribution in 2 fixes for type="custom" ColorSpaces #628
• @kleinfreund made their first contribution in fix: hsl parsing not being spec-compliant #650
• @drwpow made their first contribution in chore: Fix repository URL in package.json #656

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