pastel

pastel is a command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors. It supports many different color formats and color spaces like RGB (sRGB), HSL, CIELAB, CIELCh as well as ANSI 8-bit and 24-bit representations.

In action

Tutorial

Getting help

pastel provides a number of commands like saturate, mix or paint. To see a complete list, you can simply run `` bash pastel %%CODEBLOCK0%% bash pastel random | pastel mix red | pastel lighten 0.2 | pastel format hex %%CODEBLOCK1%% lightslategray '#778899' 778899 789 'rgb(119, 136, 153)' '119,136,153' 'hsl(210, 14.3%, 53.3%)' %%CODEBLOCK2%% pastel lighten 0.2 orchid orange lawngreen %%CODEBLOCK3%% printf "%s\n" orchid orange lawngreen | pastel lighten 0.2 %%CODEBLOCK4%% pastel color red | pastel mix - blue %%CODEBLOCK5%% bash pastel format hsl ff8000 %%CODEBLOCK6%% bash pastel color "rgb(255,50,127)" pastel color 556270 4ecdc4 c7f484 ff6b6b c44d58 %%CODEBLOCK7%% bash pastel pick %%CODEBLOCK8%% pastel distinct 8 %%CODEBLOCK9%% bash pastel list %%CODEBLOCK10%% bash pastel format name 44cc11 %%CODEBLOCK11%% bash bg="hotpink" fg="$(pastel textcolor "$bg")" pastel paint "$fg" --on "$bg" "well readable text" %%CODEBLOCK12%% bash pastel paint -n black --on red --bold " ERROR! " echo " A serious error" pastel paint -n black --on yellow --bold " WARNING! " echo " A warning message" pastel paint -n black --on limegreen --bold " INFO " echo -n " Informational message with a " echo -n "highlighted" | pastel paint -n default --underline echo " word" %%CODEBLOCK13%% bash wget "https://github.com/sharkdp/pastel/releases/download/v0.11.0/pastel_0.11.0_amd64.deb" sudo dpkg -i pastel_0.11.0_amd64.deb %%CODEBLOCK14%%bash sudo apt update sudo apt install pastel %%CODEBLOCK15%% sudo pacman -S pastel %%CODEBLOCK16%% nix-env --install pastel %%CODEBLOCK17%% brew install pastel %%CODEBLOCK18%% scoop install pastel %%CODEBLOCK19%%bash winget install sharkdp.pastel %%CODEBLOCK20%% sudo snap install pastel %%CODEBLOCK21%% pkgin install pastel %%CODEBLOCK22%% cd /usr/pkgsrc/graphics/pastel make install %%CODEBLOCK23%% cargo install pastel %%CODEBLOCK24%% git clone https://github.com/sharkdp/pastel cargo install --path ./pastel ``

Resources

Interesting Wikipedia pages:

• Color difference
• CIE 1931 color space
• CIELAB color space
• Line of purples
• Impossible color
• sRGB
• Color theory
• Eigengrau

• XKCD Color Survey Results
• Peachpuffs and Lemonchiffons - talk about named colors
• List of CSS color keywords

• How to automatically generate N "distinct" colors?
• Publication on two algorithms to generate (maximally) distinct colors

• Color Matching
• Introduction to color spaces

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)

• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)