pastel-textcolor(1)

💅 NAME 💅

pastel-textcolor — bestie, this gives you a readable text color for whatever background color you hand it. That's the whole job. She's simple, she's iconic, she's slaying. ✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

pastel textcolor [-h|--help] [color]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so here's the vibe: you give her a background color, she gives you back a readable foreground text color — and by "readable" we mean she's only ever choosing between black or white. That's it. Two options. She said pick a lane. 👑

And the way that this is also reversible?? Not me being obsessed with the plot twist 🫶 — you can flip it and use it the opposite way, like to create a background color for a given text color. Same tool, backwards energy, still ate.

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -h, --help — prints the help. And lowkey, if you want the short lil summary version, hit -h instead of the full --help. iykyk 💖
• [color] — the color. And bestie, colors can be specified in so many different formats, it's giving versatility:
  • #RRGGBB
  • RRGGBB
  • #RGB
  • 'rgb(…, …, …)'
  • 'hsl(…, …, …)'
  • 'gray(…)'
  • or literally just the name of the color. no cap, just say the name. 🌸

Two special identifiers, and you need to know these:

• - — reads a single color from standard input
• pick — runs an external color picker so you can go choose your color with your lil mouse. main character behavior fr fr 🎨

And if you don't pass a color argument at all? Then colors will be read from standard input. She'll wait for you. Patient queen. 💜

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

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

And alpha transparency is also supported, because she's thorough like that:

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

Heads up bestie: the - identifier grabs a single color from standard input, and pick is gonna launch an external picker, so don't be surprised when a whole app pops up. 🙈

And that's the whole page!! This was pastel-textcolor(1) from the General Commands Manual (section 1, the textcolor one, you know the one 💅). Go forth and pick readable colors, bestie. periodt. ✨🎀🦋💖