This library provides an easy way to generate color palettes:

In computer graphics, a palette is a finite set of colors. — Wikipedia article 'Palette (Computing)'

.. often referred to as Swatches (as branded by Adobe Inc.):

Swatches are named colors, tints, gradients, and patterns. — Adobe Illustrator

.. featuring the following (proprietary) color spaces:

• PANTONE®
• RAL®
• Dulux®
• Copic®
• Prismacolor®

For now, we-love-colors creates master palettes for use in

• Scribus (XML)
• GIMP and Inkscape (GPL)
• AutoCAD (ACB)
• LibreOffice (SOC)

Running setup.sh will install all dependencies inside a virtual environment, ready for action. Have a look first so you know what's going on ;)

Fetching color sets and processing them is really straightforward - for everything else, there's --help:

$ colors
Usage: colors [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

Options:
  -v, --version  Show the version and exit.
  -h, --help     Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  fetch    ARGS: pantone | ral | dulux | copic | prismacolor
  process  ARGS: pantone | ral | dulux | copic | prismacolor

Using its commands fetch and process is fairly easy, like that:

# Example 1 - Gotta fetch 'em `--all`:
$ colors fetch --all && colors process

# Example 2 - Fetching specific sets & processing them:
$ colors fetch copic dulux && colors process copic dulux

Q: But where do all those files go? A: That depends, ..

• .. .xml files may be loaded individually with Edit - Colours & Fills - Solid Colours - Import (Scribus)
• .. .soc files belong here:
  • ~\AppData\Roaming\libreoffice\3\user (Windows + PowerShell, otherwise %userprofile%)
  • ~/Library/Application Support/libreoffice/4/user/config (Mac)
  • ~/.config/libreoffice/4/user/config (Linux)
• .. installing .gpl files boils down to:
  • moving them to any path specified in Edit - Preferences - Folders - Palettes (GIMP)
  • moving them to palettes under directory specified in Edit - Preferences - System - User Config (Inkscape)
• .. installing .acb files is pretty straightforward

If you are looking for a quick way to browse PANTONE® colors, check out the Pantone Finder package or visit their website to get started.

For all included colors, there are preview files, to be found in the examples folder: Open up index.html, generated with examples.py (for its PHP version, just php -S localhost:8000).

When clicking a color tile, its hex value is copied to your clipboard - brought to you by clipboard.js.

Whenever mentioned throughout this project, PANTONE® and related trademarks are the property of Pantone LLC, a division of X-Rite, a Danaher company.

The same applies to ..

• RAL® and related trademarks of RAL gGmbH (non-profit LLC) and RAL Deutsches Institut für Gütesicherung und Kennzeichnung e. V.
• Dulux® and related trademarks of AkzoNobel N.V. (worldwide) and DuluxGroup (Australia & New Zealand)
• Copic® and related trademarks of Too Marker Corporation
• Prismacolor® and related trademarks of Berol Corporation, owned by Sanford L.P., a Newell Brands company.

We assume neither ownership nor intellectual property of any kind - color codes (and names), sRGB and/or hexadecimal values are publically available on (one of) their respective websites.

• For Scribus, there's also the (currently unmaintained) package SwatchBooker

Happy coding!

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