react-colorful
Minimal 3KB color picker component for React with accessibility and touch support.
UI components and icons npm MIT
How react-colorful is used
react-colorful is a dependency in 11 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,983); counting those, it appears in 24 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. Projects that use it most often also use React (95.8%), Tailwind CSS (91.7%), Next.js (62.5%).
react-colorful popularity over time
Gid Score 51: downloads 76, use in agent projects 30, GitHub stars 33, downloads trend 58 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with react-colorful
| React | 95.8% of react-colorful projects · 2.9× more than average |
|---|---|
| Tailwind CSS | 91.7% of react-colorful projects · 2.8× more than average |
| Next.js | 62.5% of react-colorful projects · 3.5× more than average |
| Framer Motion | 54.2% of react-colorful projects · 6.8× more than average |
| React Hook Form Resolvers | 50.0% of react-colorful projects · 6.2× more than average |
| React Hook Form | 50.0% of react-colorful projects · 5.5× more than average |
| Zustand | 50.0% of react-colorful projects · 8.6× more than average |
| Radix UI | 50.0% of react-colorful projects · 3.8× more than average |
From all 24 projects in our scan that use react-colorful, including the dependency samples.
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list react-colorful as a dependency.
How react-colorful is funded
Open Collective: react-colorful
| Received, last 12 months | $4 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $5 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $74 |
| Raised since the start | $74 |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $0 · $0 over 24 months |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 1 |
Top company backers all time
| LäraNära AB | $50 since Apr 2024 |
|---|
Oct 2021Sep 2026
Money by month, last five years. First money received in Apr 2021. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
Ways to fund react-colorful
Open Collective Patreon
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | npm install react-colorful |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (14), Next.js (10) |
| Example projects | linuxscreen/duo-translator, manta-ide/manta, JesusFilm/core, databayt/hogwarts, Coyenn/roblox-model-renderer |
Alternatives to react-colorful
In our scan, none of the most used tools in UI components and icons does the same job as react-colorful: they are add-ons, companions or tools for a different task.
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