pixijs-color

The Color class creates and converts colors for tints, fills, strokes, and anywhere PixiJS accepts a ColorSource. Most APIs accept raw hex/strings directly, so explicit new Color(...) is only needed when converting formats or manipulating values.

Quick Start

const fillColor = new Color("#ff6600");
console.log(fillColor.toHex()); // '#ff6600'
console.log(fillColor.toNumber()); // 0xff6600
console.log(fillColor.toArray()); // [1, 0.4, 0, 1]

const g = new Graphics().rect(0, 0, 200, 100).fill(fillColor);
app.stage.addChild(g);

const sprite = Sprite.from("hero.png");
sprite.tint = "dodgerblue";
app.stage.addChild(sprite);

const t = Color.shared.setValue(0xffffff).multiply([1, 0.5, 0.5]).toNumber();
sprite.tint = t;

Related skills: pixijs-scene-graphics (fill/stroke colors), pixijs-scene-sprite (tint), pixijs-blend-modes (compositing).

Core Patterns

Accepted input formats

import { Color } from "pixi.js";

// Hex integer
new Color(0xff0000);

// Hex strings
new Color("#ff0000");
new Color("#f00");
new Color("ff0000");

// CSS color names
new Color("red");
new Color("dodgerblue");

// RGB/RGBA objects (components 0-255)
new Color({ r: 255, g: 0, b: 0 });
new Color({ r: 255, g: 0, b: 0, a: 0.5 });

// HSL/HSLA objects
new Color({ h: 0, s: 100, l: 50 });
new Color({ h: 0, s: 100, l: 50, a: 0.5 });

// HSV/HSVA objects
new Color({ h: 0, s: 100, v: 100 });

// CSS strings
new Color("rgb(255, 0, 0)");
new Color("rgba(255, 0, 0, 0.5)");
new Color("hsl(0, 100%, 50%)");

// Normalized 0-1 arrays (Float32Array or plain arrays)
new Color([1, 0, 0]); // RGB
new Color([1, 0, 0, 0.5]); // RGBA

// Uint8 arrays (components 0-255)
new Color(new Uint8Array([255, 0, 0]));
new Color(new Uint8ClampedArray([255, 0, 0, 128]));

// 8-digit hex with alpha
new Color("#ff0000ff");
new Color("#f00f");

// Copy from another Color instance
const red = new Color("red");
const copy = new Color(red);

Conversion methods

import { Color } from "pixi.js";

const color = new Color("#ff6600");

color.toHex(); // '#ff6600'
color.toHexa(); // '#ff6600ff' (hex with alpha)
color.toNumber(); // 0xff6600
color.toArray(); // [1, 0.4, 0, 1] (normalized RGBA)
color.toRgbArray(); // [1, 0.4, 0] (normalized RGB, no alpha)
color.toRgbaString(); // 'rgba(255,102,0,1)'
color.toRgba(); // { r: 1, g: 0.4, b: 0, a: 1 }
color.toRgb(); // { r: 1, g: 0.4, b: 0 }
color.toUint8RgbArray(); // [255, 102, 0]

// setValue() is the chainable way to change a color's value
color.setValue(0xff0000).toHex(); // '#ff0000'