From 3085ab25ca087e9f56d0704ea855ff376c6a2366 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Quentin Gliech <quentingliech@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 21:52:49 -0400
Subject: Different colors for labels based on their hash

webui: A hash is computed on each label, which is then used to determine
the label's color.
---
 webui/src/Label.js | 69 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 59 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

(limited to 'webui/src/Label.js')

diff --git a/webui/src/Label.js b/webui/src/Label.js
index 93a9a358..8981142d 100644
--- a/webui/src/Label.js
+++ b/webui/src/Label.js
@@ -1,15 +1,64 @@
-import React from 'react'
-import { withStyles } from '@material-ui/core/styles'
+import React from "react";
+import { withStyles } from "@material-ui/core/styles";
+import {
+  getContrastRatio,
+  darken
+} from "@material-ui/core/styles/colorManipulator";
+import * as allColors from "@material-ui/core/colors";
+import { common } from "@material-ui/core/colors";
+
+// JS's modulo returns negative numbers sometimes.
+// This ensures the result is positive.
+const mod = (n, m) => ((n % m) + m) % m;
+
+// Minimum contrast between the background and the text color
+const contrastThreshold = 2.5;
+
+// Filter out the "common" color
+const labelColors = Object.entries(allColors)
+  .filter(([key, value]) => value !== common)
+  .map(([key, value]) => value);
+
+// Generate a hash (number) from a string
+const hash = string =>
+  string.split("").reduce((a, b) => ((a << 5) - a + b.charCodeAt(0)) | 0, 0);
+
+// Get the background color from the label
+const getColor = label =>
+  labelColors[mod(hash(label), labelColors.length)][500];
+
+// Guess the text color based on the background color
+const getTextColor = background =>
+  getContrastRatio(background, common.white) >= contrastThreshold
+    ? common.white // White on dark backgrounds
+    : common.black; // And black on light ones
+
+const _genStyle = background => ({
+  backgroundColor: background,
+  color: getTextColor(background),
+  borderBottomColor: darken(background, 0.2)
+});
+
+// Generate a style object (text, background and border colors) from the label
+const genStyle = label => _genStyle(getColor(label));
 
 const styles = theme => ({
   label: {
-    padding: '0 4px',
-    margin: '0 1px',
-    backgroundColor: '#da9898',
-    borderRadius: '3px'
-  },
-})
+    ...theme.typography.body2,
+    padding: "0 6px",
+    fontSize: "0.9em",
+    margin: "0 1px",
+    borderRadius: "3px",
+    display: "inline-block",
+    borderBottom: "solid 1.5px",
+    verticalAlign: "bottom"
+  }
+});
 
-const Label = ({label, classes}) => <span className={classes.label}>{label}</span>
+const Label = ({ label, classes }) => (
+  <span className={classes.label} style={genStyle(label)}>
+    {label}
+  </span>
+);
 
-export default withStyles(styles)(Label)
+export default withStyles(styles)(Label);
-- 
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