pastel-format(1)

💖 pastel-format(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to pastel-format — it lives in the General Commands Manual section and it is literally the glow-up station for your colors ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

pastel-format — convert a color to the given format 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pastel format [-h|--help] [type] [color]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the whole vibe is: you hand it a color (or a whole lil pile of colors) and it converts them into whatever specific format you're feeling that day 💅

Example, bestie:

pastel random -n 20 | pastel format rgb

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -h, --help — print help (see a summary with -h) 🫶
• [type] [default: hex] — the output format type you want. heads up though: the ansi-*-escapecode formats print ansi escape sequences to the terminal, and those will not be visible unless something else gets printed in addition 😭 no cap.

Possible values:

• rgb
• rgb-float
• rgb-r
• rgb-g
• rgb-b
• hex
• hsl
• hsl-hue
• hsl-saturation
• hsl-lightness
• hsv
• hsv-hue
• hsv-saturation
• hsv-value
• lch
• lch-lightness
• lch-chroma
• lch-hue
• oklch
• oklch-lightness
• oklch-chroma
• oklch-hue
• lab
• lab-a
• lab-b
• oklab
• oklab-l
• oklab-a
• oklab-b
• luminance
• brightness
• ansi-8bit
• ansi-24bit
• ansi-8bit-value
• ansi-8bit-escapecode
• ansi-24bit-escapecode
• cmyk
• name

• [color] — the color itself 💖 colors can be specified in sooooo many different formats, such as #RRGGBB, RRGGBB, #RGB, 'rgb(…, …, …)', 'hsl(…, …, …)', 'gray(…)', or literally just 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, periodt):

• 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%)'

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! the footer lowkey said format / pastel-format(1) and it's dated to whenever this manual page was built — so yeah, go convert some colors, you absolute icon 💅✨