colorzero
colorzero is a color manipulation library for Python (yes, another one) which aims to be reasonably simple to use and "pythonic" in nature.
It does not aim to be as comprehensive, powerful, or that matter as correct as, say, colormath. colorzero originally grew out of work on my picamera project, hence it's intended to be sufficiently simple that school children can use it without having to explain color spaces and illuminants. However, it does aim to be useful to a wide range of skills, hence it does include basic facilities for CIE Lab representations, and Delta-E calculations should you need them.
The major difference between colorzero and other libraries (grapefruit,
colormath, etc.) is that its Color
class is a namedtuple
descendent.
This means it is immutable; you cannot directly change the attributes of a
Color
instance. The major advantage of this is that instances can be used
as keys in dictionaries (for simple LUTs), or placed in sets.
Manipulation of Color
instances is done by typical operations with other
classes the result of which is a new Color
instance. For example:
>>> Color('red') + Color('blue') <Color html='#ff00ff' rgb=(1, 0, 1)> >>> Color('magenta') - Color('red') <Color html='#0000ff' rgb=(0, 0, 1)> >>> Color('red') - Red(0.5) <Color html='#800000' rgb=(0.5, 0, 0)> >>> Color('green') + Color('grey').red <Color html='#808000' rgb=(0.501961, 0.501961, 0)> >>> Color.from_hls(0.5, 0.5, 1.0) <Color html='#00ffff' rgb=(0, 1, 1)> >>> Color.from_hls(0.5, 0.5, 1.0) * Lightness(0.8) <Color html='#00cccc' rgb=(0, 0.8, 0.8)> >>> (Color.from_hls(0.5, 0.5, 1.0) * Lightness(0.8)).hls HLS(h=0.5, l=0.4, s=1.0)
Links
- The code is licensed under the BSD license
- The source code can be obtained from GitHub, which also hosts the bug tracker
- The documentation (which includes installation, quick-start examples, and lots of code recipes) can be read on ReadTheDocs
- Packages can be downloaded from PyPI, but reading the installation instructions is more likely to be useful