colors-by-example

Select ANSI-256 colors on terminal emulator by color indexes example on perceived lightness, chroma or hue.

Features:

• Find similar colors by Oklch attributes
• Oklch attributes are provided by example ANSI-256 color indexes
• Predefined system dependent 4-bit colors for common platforms, e.g. Terminal.app
• Show sample text with selected colors as foreground or background

Usage

• Find colors with similar hue to color 148, sort by hue: select_colors -H148 |sort -g -k8

• Show more similar colors by using --hue-extent: select_colors -H148 --hue-extent 5 |sort -g -k8

  

• Show colors opposite in hue to the reference color: select_colors -H148 --hue-extent 5 --opposite|sort -g -k8

  

• Colors with similar lightness to color 148: select_colors -L148|sort -g -k8

  

• Colors similar or brighter than color 148: select_colors -L148 --brighten true |sort -g -k8

  

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)

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.