Darker color

This function makes a color darker.
You can enter the difference between the colors (default = 20).

function ColorDarken($color, $dif=20){
 
    $color = str_replace('#', '', $color);
    if (strlen($color) != 6){ return '000000'; }
    $rgb = '';
 
    for ($x=0;$x<3;$x++){
        $c = hexdec(substr($color,(2*$x),2)) - $dif;
        $c = ($c < 0) ? 0 : dechex($c);
        $rgb .= (strlen($c) < 2) ? '0'.$c : $c;
    }
 
    return '#'.$rgb;
}

Snippet information

Author:
Jonas John

License:
Public Domain

Language:
PHP

Created:
05/30/2006

Updated:
05/30/2006

Tags:
color functions

for ($x=1; $x < 20; $x++){
 
    // Start color: 
    $c = ColorDarken('#FF481D', ($x * 3));
 
    print "<div style='background-color: $c; color: $c; font-size: 50%; padding: 0px;'>.</div>\n";
}

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Older comments:

Mark July 11, 2011 at 15:04

This is really nice, but how about making colours lighter too?