Coolshapes

A simple, fun project for the sake of creating some cool-looking abstract shapes with little grainy gradients crafted by @realvjy. Coolshapes is a completely open-source set of 100+ abstract shapes crafted for any design and development projects. Free for both commercial and personal use. Licensed under MIT.

Table of Contents

• Coolshapes
  • Table of Contents
  • Installation
  • How to use
    • Global component example
    • Shape category components example
    • Generating random shapes
    • Random shape function
    • Other Methods
    • Accessing the shapes object
    • Props
    • Categories
    • Others
      • Classname and css
      • Builds
  • Figma File
  • Credits
  • Contributing
  • Support & Donation

Installation

npm install coolshapes-react

or

yarn add coolshapes-react

How to use

There are two types of components available in Coolshapes, which you can use: Global component and Component for each category of shapes. and, you can pass additional props to adjust the shapes.

Global component example

Just import the Global component Coolshape and it will work.

import { Coolshape } from "coolshapes-react";

const App = () => {
  return <Coolshape type="star" index={0} size={48} noise={true}/>;
};

export default App;

Component with shape category example

You can import the component for specific category - Star,Ellipse... etc - and simply pass the index of the shape.

import { Star } from "coolshapes-react";

const App = () => {
  return <Star index={0} size={48}/>;
};

export default App;

Generating random shapes

setting the random prop to true or leaving the index or type prop empty would replace the shape with a random shape every time it renders.

// renders a random shape from any category
const Component = () => {
  return <Coolshape random={true}/>;
};
// renders a shape from the category star
const Component2 = () => {
  return <Coolshape type="star" random={true}/>;
};

Using random shape function

import { getRandomShape } from "coolshapes-react";

getRandomShape(); // returns a random shape component

getRandomShape({ type: "ellipse" }); // returns a random shape component from the category ellipse

getRandomShape({ onlyId: true }); // returns shape identifier that can passed as props to the shape component
// {shapeType, index}

getRandomShape({ onlyId: true, type: "star" }); // returns shape identifier that can passed as props to the shape component
// {shapeType: "star", index}

Other Methods

All the components are mapped from object that we have given you access to

const shapes = {
  star: [Star1, Star2, ...],
  ellipse: [Ellipse1, Ellipse2, ...],
  ...
}

Renders the shapes from all categories

import { shapes } from "coolshapes-react";

const ShapeGrid = () => {
  return (
    <>
      {
        Object.keys(shapes).map((shapeType, _) => {
          return shapes[shapeType].map((Shape, index) => {
            return <Shape size={48} />;
        });
      })}
    </>
  );
};

syntax

shapes[type][index];

const starComponents = shapes["star"];
const StarComponent1 = starComponents[0];

Props

name	data type	default	description
size	Number	200	The dimension of shape
type	String	random	The category of shapes, if left empty it will randomly select a category.
noise	Boolean	true	Whether to add noise to the shape or not.
index	Number	random	The index of shape within the shape category, it would randomly select a shape from the category if type prop given. index starts from 0.
random	Boolean	false	If set true it will select a random component

notes

Index starts from number 0, so if you want to retrieve the first shape of any category, you would use the index number 0.

The shapes are SVG components behind the hood, so it's also supports all the props that can be passed in a svg element.

Categories

There are a total of 115 shapes available in Coolshapes under the following categories.

name	count
star	13
triangle	14
moon	15
polygon	8
flower	16
rectangle	9
ellipse	12
wheel	7
misc	11
number	10

Note: While passing the category name in the component, the name will be in lower case.

Others

ClassNames and css

all the components have classname coolshapes assigned as default, but you can also pass custom classname of yours.

import { Star } from 'coolshapes-react';

export const Shape = () => {
  return(
    <Star className={"myshape"}/>
  )
}

// make the shapes size responsive similar to img elements.
.coolshapes{
  width: 100%;
  max-height: 48px;
}

Builds

We have given umd, es and cjs versions of the build.

cjs

const Coolshapes = require("coolshapes-react");

Using with react in the browser

<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8" />
  <script src="https://unpkg.com/react@18/umd/react.development.js"></script>
  <script src="https://unpkg.com/react-dom@18/umd/react-dom.development.js"></script>
  <script src="https://unpkg.com/@babel/standalone/babel.min.js"></script>
  <script src="https://unpkg.com/coolshapes-react/dist/umd/coolshapes.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="root"></div>
<script type="text/babel">
  const domContainer = document.querySelector("#root");
  const root = ReactDOM.createRoot(domContainer);
  const coolshapes = window.coolshapes;
  const Coolshape = coolshapes.Coolshape;
  root.render(<Coolshape />);
</script>
</body>
</html>

unpkg

https://unpkg.com/coolshapes-react/dist/umd/coolshapes.js

Figma File

Grab it from Figma Community

Credits

• Crafted by realvjy. You are always welcome to share your feedback on twitter or any other social media platform.

• Noisy Gradients Plugin - Some of the gradients generated using Noisy Gradients Figma plugin

Contributing

If you want to contribute, create a pull request.

Support & Donation

Coffee fuels design & coding ☕️