Sorting colours is a pain!

(Cover image by Garrick Ang)

I've written before about sorting colours, and this got me thinking about some work I'm doing in terms of converting some CSS to SCSS (with the proper use of CSS variables, I must add).

As such, I've been wading through some CSS, extracting colours, and then popping them into a :root CSS pseudo-class. I do this by looking for # and popping the colour into the function as and when I find them. The resulting text is well messy! I thought it couldn't be that hard to sort them similarly as employed in Google Sheets; so I came up with CSSColourSorter, which you're more than welcome to use or steal/borrow as you see fit.

It works by pasting in your whole :root directive - you'll then need to copy and paste the resulting test into your CSS/SCSS as noted before, though, sorting colours is a pain!

I've added a swatch beneath the textareas so you can see the new spectrum - mainly to check that I was doing things right!