feat(metric): allow alpha colors and improve contrast logic #2184

nickofthyme · 2023-10-02T20:53:52Z

Summary

Adds support for colors with alpha channel on Metric charts including sparkline and progress bar colors.

Screen.Recording.2023-10-02.at.01.50.54.PM.mp4

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Details

These changes clean up a bit of the background color and contrast color for the Metric chart.

Notable changes:

Removes the backgroundColor option on the Theme.metric (aka MetricStyle) in favor of the top-level Theme.background
Fixes color logic converting hsl to rgba while persisting the alpha value, see 48f2076.
Enables setting transparent colors for progress bar, overall metric color and implicitly the sparkline color.

Issues

Fixes #2183

Checklist

The proper chart type label has been added (e.g. :xy, :partition)
The proper feature labels have been added (e.g. :interactions, :axis)
All related issues have been linked (i.e. closes #123, fixes #123)
Unit tests have been added or updated to match the most common scenarios
The code has been checked for cross-browser compatibility (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge)
Visual changes have been tested with all available themes including dark, light, eui-dark & eui-light

- allow passing alpha channel for metric color & sparkline - allow passing alpha channel for metric progress bar color - remove backgroundColor from metric in favor of top-level bgColor -

nickofthyme · 2023-10-03T20:57:07Z

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packages/charts/src/utils/themes/dark_theme.ts

e2e/screenshots/all.test.ts-snapshots/baselines/metric-alpha/grid-chrome-linux.png

nickofthyme · 2023-10-04T19:10:48Z

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nickofthyme · 2023-10-05T03:22:15Z

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markov00 · 2023-10-05T12:58:39Z

packages/charts/src/chart_types/metric/renderer/dom/sparkline.tsx

@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ export const SparkLine: FunctionComponent<{
    trendShape === MetricTrendShape.Bars ? CurveType.CURVE_STEP_AFTER : CurveType.LINEAR,
  );

-  const [h, s, l] = colorToHsl(color);
-  const pathColor = hslToColor(h, s, l >= 0.8 ? l - 0.1 : l + 0.1);
+  const [h, s, l, a] = colorToHsl(color);


I think you have to blend first the color with a valid opaque background before changing the lightning, preserving the alpha is not the same thing as we where looking at doing here

I'm not quite sure what you're saying here, I need to blend the sparkline color with an opaque background?

I think you are right here since the transparent sparkline would be rendered on top of the transparent back area. I think a good fix of this is to just mask the filled sparkline from the background. See 6bd75a4

packages/charts/src/common/color_library_wrappers.ts

markov00 · 2023-10-05T13:23:29Z

packages/charts/src/chart_types/metric/renderer/dom/metric.tsx

+  const highContrastTextColor = fillTextColor(
+    backgroundColor,
+    isMetricWProgress(datum) ? backgroundColor : datum.color,
+    undefined,
+    {
+      lightColor: colorToRgba(style.text.lightColor),
+      darkColor: colorToRgba(style.text.darkColor),
+    },
+  );


I believe we should improve this a bit because the text could be above the background but also above the area background that has a different luminosity and that could change the contrast.
I think we can do the following:

find the color contrast ratios of each text color for both background colors (metric and area)

pick the text color that is more close to pass the WCAG threshold in both situations

Are you talking about the checking between the background and the sparkline area?

Ok I took a stab at this and indeed there is a small range where the text color contrast selection is opposing.

So I'm checking when there is a trend line for the contrast over the sparkline, then if different I take the color with the higher ratio. This is the part I'm not sure about, if it should be the higher one but also if we are even comaring the right ration since one is based on the light color and the other on the dark.

The main logic is here...

elastic-charts/packages/charts/src/chart_types/metric/renderer/dom/metric.tsx

Lines 100 to 120 in e254ac8

const highContrastTextColor = fillTextColor(

backgroundColor,

isMetricWProgress(datum) ? backgroundColor : datum.color,

undefined,

contrastOptions,

);

let finalTextColor = highContrastTextColor.color;

if (isMetricWTrend(datum)) {

const { ratio, color, shade } = fillTextColor(

backgroundColor,

getSparkLineColor(datum.color),

undefined,

contrastOptions,

);

// TODO verify this check is applied correctly

if (shade !== highContrastTextColor.shade && ratio > highContrastTextColor.ratio) {

finalTextColor = color;

}

}

packages/charts/src/chart_types/metric/renderer/dom/index.tsx

…ric-opacity

nickofthyme · 2023-10-06T22:17:42Z

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…ric-opacity

# [61.0.0](v60.0.0...v61.0.0) (2023-11-08) ### Bug Fixes * `onRenderChange` callback trigger on resize ([#2228](#2228)) ([be30c1b](be30c1b)) * **axis:** always render `tickLine` unless `visible` is `false` ([#2194](#2194)) ([ec95d50](ec95d50)) * **BarSeries:** ignore histogram mode in determining stacked series ([#2225](#2225)) ([27b4281](27b4281)) * clamp brushing min of last bucket ([#2227](#2227)) ([155c22d](155c22d)) * **deps:** update dependency @elastic/eui to ^88.5.0 ([#2179](#2179)) ([2bb921e](2bb921e)) * **deps:** update dependency @elastic/eui to ^88.5.4 ([#2190](#2190)) ([05b33e5](05b33e5)) * **deps:** update dependency @elastic/eui to ^89.1.0 ([#2212](#2212)) ([a91f68d](a91f68d)) * **deps:** update dependency @elastic/eui to v89 ([#2193](#2193)) ([132327d](132327d)) * **deps:** update dependency @elastic/eui to v90 ([#2222](#2222)) ([10cd53b](10cd53b)) ### chore * reclaim charts theme ownership from eui ([#2175](#2175)) ([422c7d5](422c7d5)) ### Features * **metric:** allow alpha colors and improve contrast logic ([#2184](#2184)) ([dd5732e](dd5732e)) ### BREAKING CHANGES * **BarSeries:** now ignores histogram mode in determining stacked series * elastic charts theme renamed to `LEGACY_DARK_THEME` and `LEGACY_LIGHT_THEME` in favor of the main `DARK_THEME` and `LIGHT_THEME` which was merged with eui theme overrides. These new themes are now default. * **axis:** Now respects `tickLine.padding` whenever `tickLine.visible` is `true`

nickofthyme added 2 commits October 2, 2023 12:56

fix: hsl color logic to preserve alpha channel

48f2076

feat: allow alpha colors and improve contrast logic

ca3b11d

- allow passing alpha channel for metric color & sparkline - allow passing alpha channel for metric progress bar color - remove backgroundColor from metric in favor of top-level bgColor -

nickofthyme added :styling Styling related issue :metric Related to Metric chart labels Oct 2, 2023

nickofthyme requested a review from markov00 October 2, 2023 20:54

fix: api changes

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fix: pass text colors to contrast logic

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nickofthyme and others added 7 commits October 5, 2023 08:12

chore: remove bg color check/error

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fix: split background and sparkline with alpha mask

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fix: add contrast check for text over sparkline

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nickofthyme changed the title ~~feat: allow alpha colors and improve contrast logic~~ feat(metric): allow alpha colors and improve contrast logic Oct 10, 2023

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	const highContrastTextColor = fillTextColor(
	backgroundColor,
	isMetricWProgress(datum) ? backgroundColor : datum.color,
	undefined,
	contrastOptions,
	);
	let finalTextColor = highContrastTextColor.color;

	if (isMetricWTrend(datum)) {
	const { ratio, color, shade } = fillTextColor(
	backgroundColor,
	getSparkLineColor(datum.color),
	undefined,
	contrastOptions,
	);

	// TODO verify this check is applied correctly
	if (shade !== highContrastTextColor.shade && ratio > highContrastTextColor.ratio) {
	finalTextColor = color;
	}
	}

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