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

This function does the trick. It's an adaptation of this, fairly longer implementation this repo ..

const color = (str) => {
    let rgb = [];
    // Changing non-hexadecimal characters to 0
    str = [...str].map(c => (/[0-9A-Fa-f]/g.test(c)) ? c : 0).join('');
    // Padding string with zeroes until it adds up to 3
    while (str.length % 3) str += '0';

    // Dividing string into 3 equally large arrays
    for (i = 0; i < str.length; i += str.length / 3)
        rgb.push(str.slice(i, i + str.length / 3));

    // Formatting a hex color from the first two letters of each portion
    return `#${rgb.map(string => string.slice(0, 2)).join('')}`;
}