我发现随机生成的颜色往往没有足够的对比度来满足我的口味。我发现解决这个问题最简单的方法是预先填充一个非常不同的颜色列表。对于每个新字符串，分配列表中的下一个颜色:

// Takes any string and converts it into a #RRGGBB color.
var StringToColor = (function(){
    var instance = null;

    return {
    next: function stringToColor(str) {
        if(instance === null) {
            instance = {};
            instance.stringToColorHash = {};
            instance.nextVeryDifferntColorIdx = 0;
            instance.veryDifferentColors = ["#000000","#00FF00","#0000FF","#FF0000","#01FFFE","#FFA6FE","#FFDB66","#006401","#010067","#95003A","#007DB5","#FF00F6","#FFEEE8","#774D00","#90FB92","#0076FF","#D5FF00","#FF937E","#6A826C","#FF029D","#FE8900","#7A4782","#7E2DD2","#85A900","#FF0056","#A42400","#00AE7E","#683D3B","#BDC6FF","#263400","#BDD393","#00B917","#9E008E","#001544","#C28C9F","#FF74A3","#01D0FF","#004754","#E56FFE","#788231","#0E4CA1","#91D0CB","#BE9970","#968AE8","#BB8800","#43002C","#DEFF74","#00FFC6","#FFE502","#620E00","#008F9C","#98FF52","#7544B1","#B500FF","#00FF78","#FF6E41","#005F39","#6B6882","#5FAD4E","#A75740","#A5FFD2","#FFB167","#009BFF","#E85EBE"];
        }

        if(!instance.stringToColorHash[str])
            instance.stringToColorHash[str] = instance.veryDifferentColors[instance.nextVeryDifferntColorIdx++];

            return instance.stringToColorHash[str];
        }
    }
})();

// Get a new color for each string
StringToColor.next("get first color");
StringToColor.next("get second color");

// Will return the same color as the first time
StringToColor.next("get first color");

虽然它的颜色限制只有64种，但我发现大多数人在那之后都无法真正分辨出区别。我认为你可以添加更多的颜色。

虽然这段代码使用了硬编码的颜色，但至少可以保证您在开发过程中确切地知道在生产中您将看到的颜色之间的对比有多大。

颜色列表是从这个SO答案中提取的，还有其他更多颜色的列表。

2023版本普通和简单的TypeScript箭头函数，返回HSL颜色。

const stringToColor = (value: string) => {
  let hash = 0;
  for (let i = 0; i < value.length; i++) {
    hash = value.charCodeAt(i) + ((hash << 5) - hash);
  }

  return `hsl(${hash % 360}, 85%, 35%)`;
};

以下是对CD Sanchez的答案的改编，它始终返回一个6位数的颜色代码:

var stringToColour = function(str) {
  var hash = 0;
  for (var i = 0; i < str.length; i++) {
    hash = str.charCodeAt(i) + ((hash << 5) - hash);
  }
  var colour = '#';
  for (var i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
    var value = (hash >> (i * 8)) & 0xFF;
    colour += ('00' + value.toString(16)).substr(-2);
  }
  return colour;
}

用法:

stringToColour("greenish");
// -> #9bc63b

例子:

http://jsfiddle.net/sUK45/

(另一种/更简单的解决方案可能涉及返回'rgb(…)'风格的颜色代码。)

只是将Java从Compute的十六进制颜色代码任意字符串移植到Javascript:

function hashCode(str) { // java String#hashCode
    var hash = 0;
    for (var i = 0; i < str.length; i++) {
       hash = str.charCodeAt(i) + ((hash << 5) - hash);
    }
    return hash;
} 

function intToRGB(i){
    var c = (i & 0x00FFFFFF)
        .toString(16)
        .toUpperCase();

    return "00000".substring(0, 6 - c.length) + c;
}

转换你会做:

intToRGB(hashCode(your_string))

我在一行中将其转换为Python

import hashlib

hash = hashlib.sha1(b'user@email.com').hexdigest()

print("#" + hash[0:6])

我已经打开了一个pull request to Please.js，它允许从散列中生成颜色。

你可以像这样将字符串映射到一个颜色:

const color = Please.make_color({
    from_hash: "any string goes here"
});

例如，"any string goes here"将返回"#47291b" “another!”返回为“#1f0c3d”