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Description¶ ↑
Color is a Ruby library to provide basic RGB, CMYK, HSL, and other colourspace manipulation support to applications that require it. It also provides 152 named RGB colours (184 with spelling variations) that are commonly supported in HTML, SVG, and X11 applications. A technique for generating monochromatic contrasting palettes is also included.
The Color library performs purely mathematical manipulation of the colours based on colour theory without reference to colour profiles (such as sRGB or Adobe RGB). For most purposes, when working with RGB and HSL colour spaces, this won't matter. Absolute colour spaces (like CIE L*a*b* and XYZ) and cannot be reliably converted to relative colour spaces (like RGB) without colour profiles.
Color version 1.6 primarily adds a colour matching method for RGB and experimental CIE L*a*b* and XYZ conversion methods for use with the colour matching method.
Barring bugs introduced in this release, this is the last version of color
that supports Ruby 1.8, so make sure that your gem specification is set
properly (to ~> 1.6
) if that matters for your application.
History¶ ↑
Color is the result of a project merge between color.rb 0.1.0 by Matt Lyon and color-tools 1.3 by Austin Ziegler. Please see History.txt for details on the changes this merge brings.
Color::Palette::MonoContrast was developed based on techniques described by Andy “Malarkey” Clarke, implemented in JavaScript by Steve G. Chipman at SlayerOffice and by Patrick Fitzgerald of BarelyFitz in PHP.
Contributing¶ ↑
I value any contribution to Color you can provide: a bug report, a feature request, or code contributions.
Code contributions to Color are especially <del>welcome</del>encouraged. Because Color is a complex codebase, there are a few guidelines:
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Changes <strong>will not</strong> be accepted without tests.
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Match my coding style.
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Use a thoughtfully-named topic branch that contains your change. Rebase your commits into logical chunks as necessary.
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Do not change the version number; when your patch is accepted and a release is made, the version will be updated at that point.
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Submit a GitHub pull request with your changes.
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New features require new documentation.
Test Dependencies¶ ↑
To run the test suite, you will need to install the development dependencies for Color. If you have Bundler, you can accomplish this easily:
$ bundle install
Color uses Ryan Davis’s excellent Hoe to manage the release process, and it adds a number of rake tasks. You will mostly be interested in:
$ rake
which runs the tests the same way that:
$ rake spec $ rake test $ rake travis
will do.
Workflow¶ ↑
Here's the most direct way to get your work merged into the project:
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Fork the project.
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Clone down your fork (+git clone git://github.com/<username>/color.git+).
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Create a topic branch to contain your change (+git checkout -b my_awesome_feature+).
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Hack away, add tests. Not necessarily in that order.
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Make sure everything still passes by running `rake`.
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If necessary, rebase your commits into logical chunks, without errors.
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Push the branch up (+git push origin my_awesome_feature+).
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Create a pull request against halostatue/color and describe what your change does and the why you think it should be merged.
Contributors¶ ↑
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Austin Ziegler created color-tools.
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Matt Lyons created color.
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Dave Heitzman (contrast comparison)
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Thomas Sawyer
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Aaron Hill (CIE94 colour matching)
Licence¶ ↑
This software is available under an MIT-style licence.
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Copyright 2005–2014 Austin Ziegler, Matt Lyon, and other contributors
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
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The names of its contributors may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.