osx-colors 1.0.4

Set osxs accent/highlight colors using the commandline

osx-colors

Sane command line color customisation for osx, no more fiddling about with defaults, internal apple color constants and rgb color codes

Say you want to change your Accent and Highlight Color to Green like this

If you wanted to change it via terminal, normally you'd need to do this

$ defaults write -g AppleAccentColor -string 3
$ defaults write -g AppleHighlightColor -string "0.752941 0.964706 0.678431 Green"

Instead.... do this 😄

$ osx-colors set green

Features

• Sane color handling using color names and a single command
• Provide it a color in hex and it'll find the "nearest" available apple color to it and set it to this, this is awesome if you use pywal and want matching accent/highlight colors to your wallpaper
• Restarts Finder,Docker,System Preferences etc upon setting so colors can be immediately seen

Why

I'm a huge fan of pywal and what I thought would really be the cherry on top would be Accent & Highlight colors that were based on the color palette of the wallaper, however I wasn't able to find anything that did it and color management from the commandline simply sucked, so I wrote this for my personal needs

Limitations

At present you can only set both the AccentColor and HighlightColor together, however the HighlightColor can be customized to any color in the UI (from what I can see)

Getting Started

Dependencies

• MacOS Monterey (It probably works on others I just haven't tested it!)
• Python 3.8 or greater

Installing

pip install osx-colors

Usage

To set the Accent and Highlight color to Red

$ osx-colors set red
Setting the 'Accent Color' to 'red'
Setting the 'Highlight Color' to 'red'
Restarting Finder, Spotlight and System Preferences, others may need to be restarted manually

To set the Accent and Highlight color to the closest color to the HEX color provided

$ osx-colors set 0029ff
Searching for the closest Apple color to '0029ff' we found 'blue'
Setting the 'Accent Color' to 'blue'
Setting the 'Highlight Color' to 'blue'
Restarting Finder, Spotlight and System Preferences, others may need to be restarted manually

For more usage instructions see

$ osx-colors --help

TODO

[] Better example of the wallpaper functionality, it's why I built it [] Ability to get colors

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license

Acknowledgments

• Thanks to ofstack for the code to match the "nearest" color, i'm no color scientist
• Thanks to quantum_libet on reddit for a rundown on the insanity of color management via the terminal