VSCode Color Info

Visual Studio Code extension that provides quick information css colors.

About

Color Info adds additional information when you hover over a css color, including:

• rgb – RGB color values. Enabled by default
• hsl – HSL color values. Enabled by default
• css-color-name - Name of the color (red, blue, ...).
• hsv – HSV color values
• lab – LAB color values
• lch – LCHab color values
• cmyk – CMYK color values. Enabled by default
• hex – Hex value. Enabled by default
• alpha – Alpha value. Enabled by default
• preview – Preview of the color. Displays color with alpha in lower left corner and color without alpha in upper right corner. Enabled by default
• preview-xl – Larger preview of the color
• preview-square – Square preview of the color
• preview-square-xl – Larger square preview of the color

You can customize which of these fields are displayed and the order they are displayed in using the settings described below.

By default, the extension works with any css, sass, scss, or less document and recognizes all basic css color formats, including named colors. You can also enable Color Info in additional file types using the colorInfo.languages setting

Configuration

colorInfo.fields

Ordered array of color fields to display.

colorInfo.excludedFields

Array of fields not to display. Overrides colorInfo.fields. If you only need to exclude one or two of the default fields, using colorInfo.excludedFields is the preferred approach.

colorInfo.languages

Defines which files and languages have color info enabled, and which color types are supported. The default language setting enables all css color values for css, sass, and less documents:

"colorInfo.languages": [
    {
        "selector": "css",
        "colors": "css"
    }, {
        "selector": "sass",
        "colors": "css"
    }, {
        "selector": "scss",
        "colors": "css"
    }, {
        "selector": "less",
        "colors": "css"
    }
]

Each element consists of:

• "selector" - VSCode document selector.

• "colors" - String or array of strings defining the types of colors to display information for. Valid values color types are:

  • css - All css color value types
  • hex - Css hex (#ff00ff or #f0f)
  • hex+alpha - Css hex plus alpha (#ff00ff77 or #f0f7)
  • rgb - Css rgb or rgba (rgb(1, 2, 3) or rgba(1, 2, 3, 0.5)) c
  • hsl - Css hsl or hsla (hsl(1, 2, 3) or hsla(1, 2, 3, 0.5))
  • css-colors-names - Css color names (red, blue)

VSCode does not currently support nested languages, so to enable Color Info in an html file, you must add:

{
    "selector": "html",
    "colors": "css"
}

To your colorInfo.languages setting. Make you add this setting to the end of the default colorInfo.languages setting so that you do not disable Color Info for the standard languages.