pastel-distinct(1)

💖 pastel-distinct(1) — the "make me a whole palette of colors that don't look like each other" page 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual, entry pastel-distinct(1) — yes the whole manual is literally called pastel-distinct, we're in the General Commands Manual section, it's giving very official, very iconic 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

pastel-distinct — Generate a set of visually distinct colors 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pastel distinct [-m|--metric] [-v|--verbose] [-h|--help] [count] [color]

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So what this does: it generates a set of visually distinct colors by maximizing the perceived color difference between pairs of colors. basically it's out here making sure nobody in your palette is wearing the same outfit, no cap 👑

The default parameters for the optimization procedure — and yes it's simulated annealing, we're fancy — should work fine for up to 10-20 colors. beyond that? girl, it might get a little sweaty 😭

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -m, --metric <name> [default: CIE76] — Distance metric to compute mutual color distances. The CIEDE2000 is more accurate, but also much slower. lowkey the tradeoff of the century fr fr

Possible values:

• CIEDE2000
• CIE76

• -v, --verbose — Print simulation output to STDERR. she's narrating her own glow-up ✨
• -h, --help — Print help (see a summary with -h). we love a helpful queen 🫶
• [count] [default: 10] — Number of distinct colors in the set. ten is the vibe unless you say otherwise 💜
• [color] — Colors can be specified in many different formats, such as #RRGGBB, RRGGBB, #RGB, 'rgb(…, …, …)', 'hsl(…, …, …)', 'gray(…)' or simply by the name of the color. The identifier - can be used to read a single color from standard input. Also, the special identifier pick can be used to run an external color picker to choose a color. If no color argument is specified, colors will be read from standard input.

Examples (all of these specify the same color):

• lightslategray
• '#778899'
• 778899
• 789
• 'rgb(119, 136, 153)'
• '119,136,153'
• 'hsl(210, 14.3%, 53.3%)'

Alpha transparency is also supported:

• '#77889980'
• 'rgba(119, 136, 153, 0.5)'
• 'hsla(210, 14.3%, 53.3%, 50%)'

heads up bestie: if you don't hand over a color argument at all, it will read colors from standard input. that's the deal, don't be surprised 🙈

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

no extra cross-references on this page, so go forth and pick your metric, pick your count, and let the annealing do its little dance 💃

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and that's the whole page, bestie! this one's from the pastel crew — the footer just says distinct and pastel-distinct(1), so like, that's the source and the name, all wrapped up cute. go make some colors that actually respect each other's personal space 🦋💖✨