Create similar colors from similar strings

[sschuberth]

What do you think about extending the library with functionality to create similar looking (but yet distinct enough to distinguish) colors from similar strings? The use-case is hat you have a whole family of similar terms that you'd like to assign similar colors to.

From the algorithm perspective, maybe using a similarity hash function whose numeric value gets mapped to hue would work?

[Marko19907]

Hey,
I've been thinking about this a bit and I'm not sure what the best algorithmic approach would be here, or exactly what will drive the "similarity" between strings

One possible direction could be to generate a base color using one algorithm, then generate a secondary value using another algorithm and use that to slightly mix the result. The API could look something like: generateColor(category, value)

Definitely open to ideas and always happy to accept a good PR! 😁

[sschuberth]

I'm basically willing to contribute, but I'm not a TypeScript guy 🙄