pastel-mix(1)

✨ pastel-mix ✨

okay bestie, welcome to pastel-mix(1) — yes it's a general commands manual page and yes it's about mixing colors, we love a glow-up moment 💅

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🎀 NAME 🎀

pastel-mix — mix two colors in the given colorspace. that's it, that's the whole job, and it does it gorgeously ✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pastel mix [-s|--colorspace] [-f|--fraction] [-h|--help] <color> [color]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the whole vibe is: you take two colors and you interpolate between them inside whatever colorspace you pick, and boom — brand new colors, born right there, main character energy 👑

Example, because we love a demo:

pastel mix --colorspace=RGB red blue

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💖 OPTIONS 💖

• -s, --colorspace <name> — the colorspace where the interpolating happens. default is Lab, no cap.

the possible values are literally:

• Lab
• LCh
• RGB
• HSL
• OkLab

• -f, --fraction — a number between 0.0 and 1.0 that decides how much you mix in from the base color. default is 0.5, i.e. dead center, perfectly balanced, iconic 🫶
• -h, --help — prints the help. note that it says see a summary with -h, so if you want the short version, that's your girl.
• <color> — the base color, aka the one getting mixed with the other colors.
• [color] — and here's the tea, bestie: colors can be specified in SO many different formats, like #RRGGBB, RRGGBB, #RGB, 'rgb(…, …, …)', 'hsl(…, …, …)', 'gray(…)', or just, like, the actual name of the color. you can also use the identifier '-' to read a single color from standard input. and the special identifier 'pick' will run an external color picker so you can choose a color with your own little hands 🎨. if you pass no color argument at all, colors get read from standard input. periodt.

Examples — all of these specify the same color, which is lowkey wild when you think about it:

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

Alpha transparency is also supported, because we contain multitudes:

• '#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!! this was pastel-mix(1) from the General Commands Manual, hanging out in the mix corner of your man pages, and the version/date stamp is just chillin' in the footer like always 💜 go mix something pretty, you got this 🌈🍓