Create a hexadecimal colour based on a string with JavaScript

Question

I want to create a function that will accept any old string (will usually be a single word) and from that somehow generate a hexadecimal value between #000000

Answer 1

All you really need is a good hash function. On node, I just use

const crypto = require('crypto');
function strToColor(str) {
    return '#' + crypto.createHash('md5').update(str).digest('hex').substr(0, 6);
}