Polychromy

Description

Polychromy is a Python script to manipulate the colors of a text.

Features

• Function colorate prints text of a specified colour in a specified colour background.
• Function show prints out color details such as Hex and RGB values of a given colour in a square of the given colour.

Latest Version 1.1.0

Table of Contents

• Getting Started
  • Prerequisites
  • Installation
• Usage
  • Parameters
  • Examples
• Contributing
• License

Getting Started

Prerequisites

This script relies on the Python standard library, and the libraries requests and textlinebreaker.

Installation

• Install the package with pip

  pip install polychromy

• Import the selected package in your program

  from polychromy import colorate

or

  from polychromy import show

Usage

Calling the function show your program will print a square of the selected color with details about it. Calling the function colorate inside your program will return a printable string of the desired color.

Parameters

The function accept most color names, RGB values [0-255];[0-255];[0-255], Hex values #[00-FF][00-FF][00-FF], xterm color number in the format x[0-255], and ANSI codes.[^Note]

[^Note]: The output color might differ from the desired one depending on terminal used.

Examples

Here are some examples of how to use polychromy.

Show

Using the function show you can print out color details such as Hex and RGB values of a given colour in a square of the given colour.

import sys
from polychromy import show

# If you run this program without any argument it asks you for a color and prints it out to the screen.
if len(sys.argv) == 1:

    color_in = input("Enter a colour: ")
    show(color_in)

# Giving a color as argument it prints it out directly to the screen
# Accepted values are: Name colors, HEX and RGB values.

else:
    show()

Output 1

Colorate

Using the function colorate you can print text of a specified colour in a specified colour background.

from polychromy import colorate

# Texts to print
text1 = "There are only 10 kinds of people in this world:"
text2 = "Those who know binary and Those who don't."

# Foreground (text) coors
foreground_1 = "#F5F5F5"
foreground_2 = 90

# Background colors
background_1 = "0;128;128"
background_2 = "Cosmic Latte"

print(colorate(text1,foreground_1,background_1))
print(colorate(text2,foreground_2,background_2))

Output 2

Contributing

If you'd like to contribute to this project, please follow these steps:

1. Fork the repository on GitHub.
2. Clone the fork to your local machine.
3. Create a new branch for your feature or bug fix.
4. Make your changes and commit them.
5. Push the changes to your fork on GitHub.
6. Create a pull request to the original repository.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.