---
title: Colours of the Alphabet
slug: alphacol
description: Colorizes the Alphabet, using highly advanced colorizational algorithms.
---

<style>
    #colOut .charOut {
        font-size: 2em;
        font-family: Fira Mono, Courier New, Courier, monospace;
    }
    
    #chars {
        width: 100%;
    }
    
    textarea {
        font-size: 2em;
    }
</style>

<script src="/assets/js/vue.js"></script>

<div id="app">
    <div id="colOut">
        <span v-for="c in coloredChars" :style="c.style" class="charOut">{{c.char}}</span>
    </div>

    <hr>

    <textarea rows="5" type="text" placeholder="Enter some text" id="chars" v-model="input"></textarea>

    <div>Colorization Mode: </div>
    <select v-model="method">
        <option value="hsl">HSL</option>
        <option value="rgb">RGB</option>   
    </select>
</div>

<script>
    String.prototype.forEach = function(callback)
    {
        for (var i = 0; i < this.length; i++)
        callback(this[i]);
    }
    
    var beginAlpha = 97;
    var endAlpha = 122;
    
    var numChars = endAlpha - beginAlpha + 1
    
    var colMax = 4096;
    
    var alpha = {}
    
    for (var charCode = beginAlpha; charCode <= endAlpha; charCode++)
    {
        alpha[String.fromCharCode(charCode)] = charCode - beginAlpha;
    }
    
    var charOut = document.getElementById("charOut");
    var colOut = document.getElementById("colOut");
    
    var pad3 = function(num) {return ("000" + num).substr(-3, 3)}; // Pads out a number so that it is exactly 3 digits long.

    function rescaleAlpha(char, max) {
        return alpha[char] / numChars * max;
    }
    
    function toShortHex(col)
    {
        var hexCode = Math.round(col).toString(16);
        return "#" + pad3(hexCode);
    }
    
    var vm = new Vue({
        el: "#app",
        data: {
            input: "",
            method: "rgb"
        },
        computed: {
            coloredChars: function() {
                var conversionFunction = function() {return "red";}

                if (this.method == "rgb") {
                    conversionFunction = this.charToRGB;
                } else if (this.method == "hsl") {
                    conversionFunction = this.charToHSL;
                }

                return this.input.split("").map(function(character) {
                    return {style: {"color": conversionFunction(character.toLowerCase())}, char: character}
                });
            }
        },
        methods: {
            charToRGB: function(char) {
                return toShortHex(rescaleAlpha(char, colMax));
            },
            charToHSL: function(char) {
                return "hsl(" + rescaleAlpha(char, 360) + ", 100%, 50%)"
            }
        }
    })
</script>