pastel(1)

✨ pastel ✨

okay bestie, welcome to pastel(1) — the group chat of color tools 💖

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🎀 NAME 🎀

pastel — a command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors 💅

like literally, colors are its whole personality.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pastel [--color-picker] [-f|--force-color] [-h|--help] [-m|--color-mode]
[-V|--version] <subcommands>

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

A command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors ✨

that's it. that's the vibe. it's giving rainbow but make it terminal 🌈

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• --color-picker — use a specific tool to pick the colors 🎨 (like, you tell pastel which picker to use instead of it guessing) Possible values:
  • gpick
  • xcolor
  • wcolor
  • grabc
  • colorpicker
  • chameleon
  • kcolorchooser
  • zenity
  • yad
  • hyprpicker
  • gdbus
• -f, --force-color — alias for --mode=24bit 🔥 no cap, that's literally what it is
• -h, --help — print help 🫶
• -m, --color-mode <mode> — specify the terminal color mode: 24bit, 8bit, off, auto 🌈 (and yes, auto is the default one, she's the main character)
• -V, --version — print version ⭐

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💜 SUBCOMMANDS 💜

• pastel-color(1) — display information about the given color 👀
• pastel-colorblind(1) — simulate a color under a certain colorblindness profile 🌈
• pastel-colorcheck(1) — check if your terminal emulator supports 24-bit colors. 🧐
• pastel-complement(1) — get the complementary color (hue rotated by 180°) 🔄
• pastel-darken(1) — darken color by a specified amount 🌚
• pastel-desaturate(1) — decrease color saturation by a specified amount 🩶
• pastel-distinct(1) — generate a set of visually distinct colors 🎨
• pastel-format(1) — convert a color to the given format 🔁
• pastel-gradient(1) — generate an interpolating sequence of colors 🌅
• pastel-gray(1) — create a gray tone from a given lightness 🪨
• pastel-help(1) — print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s) 💬
• pastel-lighten(1) — lighten color by a specified amount ☀️
• pastel-list(1) — show a list of available color names 📜
• pastel-mix(1) — mix two colors in the given colorspace 🧪
• pastel-paint(1) — print colored text using ANSI escape sequences 🖌️
• pastel-pick(1) — interactively pick a color from the screen (pipette) 💉
• pastel-random(1) — generate a list of random colors 🎲
• pastel-rotate(1) — rotate the hue channel by the specified angle 🎡
• pastel-saturate(1) — increase color saturation by a specified amount 🌺
• pastel-set(1) — set a color property to a specific value 🎯
• pastel-sort-by(1) — sort colors by the given property 🔤
• pastel-textcolor(1) — get a readable text color for the given background color 📝
• pastel-to-gray(1) — completely desaturate a color (preserving luminance) ⚪

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⭐ VERSION ⭐

v0.12.0

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lowkey iconic, highkey useful. go forth and color, bestie 💅✨

okay and one last thing before you go — this whole thing is pastel 0.12.0, from the pastel(1) page, and the footer said pastel 0.12.0 too 🫶 so like, that's the version, that's the manual, we're done here. mwah 😭💖