NameThatColor
Provides a utility for retrieving the closest known "human readable" name for a color specified as a hex string. It does this by using an algorithm ported from ntc.js.
There are 3 different sets of color definitions to choose from:
css3 is a superset of html4.
The user can also supply their own colorfile to use. It should be comma separated hex,name pairs, and should include the leading #. Commas are allowed in names.
Currently two output formats are supported -- json, and raw.
Usage:
As a command-line utility:
$ namethatcolor aabbcc
{"hex_value": "#B0C4DE", "name": "lightsteelblue"}
$ namethatcolor --color-set resene aabbcc
{"hex_value": "#ADBED1", "name": "Casper"}
#same as above
$ namethatcolor -s resene aabbcc
#specify your own color file
$ namethatcolor -c path/to/color/file aabbcc
As a library:
>>> from namethatcolor import NameThatColor
>>> Namer = NameThatColor()
>>> Namer.name('aabbcc')
Match('#B0C4DE', 'lightsteelblue', False, '#AABBCC')
>>> resene_filename = NameThatColor.color_sets['resene']
>>> resene_colors = NameThatColor.get_color_file(resene_filename)
>>> Namer = NameThatColor(color_file=resene_colors)
>>> Namer.name('aabbcc')
Match('#ADBED1', 'Casper', False, '#AABBCC')
