lib/letter-avatars.js

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ const config = require('./config')
 exports.generateAvatar = function (name) {
   // use darker colors for better contrast
   const color = new Chance(name).color({
+    format: 'hex',
     max_red: 150,
     max_green: 150,
     max_blue: 150

lib/realtime.js

@@ -710,7 +710,7 @@ function connection (socket) {
 
     // initialize user data
     // random color
-    let color = chance.color()
+    let color = chance.color({ format: 'hex' })
     // make sure color not duplicated or reach max random count
     if (notes[noteId]) {
       let randomcount = 0
@@ -723,7 +723,7 @@ function connection (socket) {
           }
         })
         if (found) {
-          color = chance.color()
+          color = chance.color({ format: 'hex' })
           randomcount++
         }
       } while (found && randomcount < maxrandomcount)

public/docs/release-notes.md

@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 # Release Notes
 
+## Unreleased
+
+### Bugfixes
+- Random colors for user's cursors and selections are now always in hex format to avoid conversion errors
+
 ## <i class="fa fa-tag"></i> 1.10.6 <i class="fa fa-calendar-o"></i> 2026-02-04
 
 ### Security fixes

public/js/index.js

@@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ const supportExtraTags = [
     text: '[random color tag]',
     search: '[]',
     command: function () {
-      const color = chance().color()
+      const color = chance().color({ format: 'hex' })
       return '[color=' + color + ']'
     }
   }