colormap 0.9.0

Utilities to ease manipulation of matplotlib colormaps and color codecs (e.g., hex2rgb)

Compatible with Python 2.7, 3.3, 3.4

What is it ?

colormap package provides simple utilities to convert colors between RGB, HEX, HLS, HUV and a class to easily build colormaps for matplotlib.

Installation

pip install colormap

Example

Create your own colormap from red to green colors with intermediate color as whitish (diverging map from red to green):

c = Colormap()
mycmap = c.cmap( {'red':[1,1,0], 'green':[0,1,.39], 'blue':[0,1,0]})
cmap = c.test_colormap(mycmap)

See user guide for details.