API Reference¶

Color palettes¶

Most functions listed above are exported and can be accessed directly via the colorspace package, such as colorspace.hcl_palettes(), colorspace.qualitative_hcl() and more.

`hcl_palettes`	Gives access to the default color palettes of the colorspace package.
`qualitative_hcl`	Qualitative HCL color palette.
`sequential_hcl`	Sequential HCL color palette.
`diverging_hcl`	Diverging HCL color palette.
`rainbow_hcl`	HCL rainbow, a qualitative cyclic rainbow color palette with uniform luminance and chroma.
`heat_hcl`	HEAT hcl, a sequential color palette.
`terrain_hcl`	HCL terrain colors, a sequential palette.
`diverging_hsv`	Diverging HSV color palette.
`rainbow`	Infamous rainbow palette.
`palette`	A class for custom color palettes with a fixed number of colors.
`palettes.hclpalette`	Hy, I am the base class.

GUI for choosing color palettes¶

Exported function, can be accessed via colorspace.choose_palette().

choose_palette

Graphical user interface to choose HCL based color palettes.

Assessing colors and palettes¶

`specplot`	Visualization of the RGB and HCL spectrum given a set of hex colors.
`swatchplot`	Create color palette swatch plots.

Color vision defficiency¶

`CVD`	Object to simulate color vision deficiencies (CVD) for protanope, deteranope, and tritanope visual constraints.
`desaturate`	Transform a vector of given colors to the corresponding colors with chroma reduced (by a tunable amount) in HCL space.
`deutan`	Simulate Color Vision Deficiency
`protan`	Simulate Color Vision Deficiency
`tritan`	Simulate Color Vision Deficiency

Color manipulation¶

`max_chroma`	Get maximum chroma for a specific combination of hue and luminance.
`contrast_ratio`	W3C Contrast Ratio
`lighten`	Algorithmically lighten colors.
`darken`	Algorithmically darken colors.
`extract_transparency`	Extracting alpha transparency.
`adjust_transparency`	Adjust alpha transparency.

Color library/color transformations¶

`polarLUV`	Create polarLUV (HCL) Color Object
`HCL`	alias of `polarLUV`
`CIELUV`	Create CIELUV Color Object
`CIEXYZ`	Create CIEXYZ Color Object
`RGB`	Create RGB Color Object
`sRGB`	Create Standard RGB (sRGB) Color Object
`CIELAB`	Create CIELAB Color Object
`polarLAB`	Create Polar LAB Color Object
`HSV`	Create HSV Color Object
`HLS`	Create HLS Color Object
`hexcols`	Create Hex Color Object