Color Shade Generator

Color Shade Generator is a Python package that allows you to easily generate a list of shades for a given color. The package can generate shades in both hexadecimal and RGB format.

Installation

You can install the package using pip:

pip install python-colorcode==0.1

Usage

The package provides a single function called generate_color_shades() which takes in two parameters:

color_name: the name of the color for which you want to generate shades. The color name should be a string that is recognized by the webcolors library. rgb (optional): a boolean value that indicates whether the shades should be returned in RGB format (True) or hex format (False). The default value is False. Here is an example of how to use the generate_color_shades() function:

from python-colorcode import python_colorcode

try:
    hex_shades = python_colorcode.generate_color_shades("red")
    print(hex_shades)

    rgb_shades = python_colorcode.generate_color_shades("red", rgb=True)
    print(rgb_shades)
except ValueError as e:
    print(e)

The above code will generate 20 shades of the color red, in hex and RGB format, respectively. If the color name passed is not valid, it will raise a ValueError.

Note

This package is using webcolors library to convert color name to RGB, it supports all the CSS3 standard color names, you can find the full list here

Also, you can add more functionality like,

ability to return the shades in different format like HSL or HSV. ability to return the shades in the order of Lightest to Darkest or vice versa. etc.

Contributing

If you would like to contribute to the package, please submit a pull request.

License

This package is licensed under the MIT License.

Acknowledgements

This package is using webcolors library, you can find more information about it here