programming-language-colors

GitHub's programming language colors as an npm and JSR package. Data is sourced from github-linguist/linguist and updated automatically.

Installation

# npm
npm install programming-language-colors

# JSR
npx jsr add @ant-ms/programming-language-colors
# or
deno add jsr:@ant-ms/programming-language-colors

Usage

import { getLanguageColor, Colors } from "programming-language-colors";
// or for JSR: import { getLanguageColor, Colors } from "@ant-ms/programming-language-colors";

// Look up a single language color (case-insensitive)
getLanguageColor("TypeScript"); // "#3178c6"
getLanguageColor("python"); // "#3572A5"
getLanguageColor("C++"); // "#f34b7d"
getLanguageColor("not-real"); // undefined

// Aliases are also supported
getLanguageColor("ts"); // "#3178c6"
getLanguageColor("csharp"); // "#178600"
getLanguageColor("golang"); // "#00ADD8"

// Access the full color map directly
console.log(Colors);
// { "typescript": "#3178c6", "python": "#3572A5", ... }

Data Source

Language color data is derived from the languages.yml file in the github-linguist/linguist repository. A weekly automated check keeps the data in sync with upstream changes.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

The language color data is derived from github-linguist/linguist, which is Copyright (c) 2017 GitHub, Inc. and also licensed under MIT. See THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES for details.