alistairshaw/name-the-color

Provide color names from hex values and hex values for color names

0.1.1 2016-04-23 00:04 UTC

Requires

• php: >=5.4.0

Requires (Dev)

• phpunit/phpunit: ~5

MIT

• Alistair Shaw

• convert
• colors
• palette
• color names

README

Via Composer

$ composer require alistairshaw/name-the-color:0.1.*

Usage

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use AlistairShaw\NameTheColor\ColorMaker;

// You can get a Color object from a hex code. It will find the closest named color to your hex.
$color = ColorMaker::fromHex('#FF0000');

// or from the name of the color
$color = ColorMaker::fromString('Red');

// once you have the color object you can get the resulting color like so:
echo $color->getName() . ' - ' . $color->getHex() . ' (' . $color->getOriginalHex() . ')';

Contributing

Contributions are very welcome and will be fully credited, just please make sure to add tests.

Credits

• Alistair Shaw
• All Contributors

Lots of credit to Chirag Mehta who came up with this in Javascript back in 2007. (http://chir.ag/projects/ntc/). The list of colors comes from his website as well as the method for converting hex codes.

License

The MIT License (MIT).