| Author: | Jakob westhoff |
|---|---|
| Revision: | Draft |
| Date: | 2011-06-17 |
Modern terminal emulators are capable of displaying a lot more than the 16 usual colors. In fact most currently used terminals can display up to 256 different colors.
256colors is a bash script, which is capable of outputting a nicely formatted table of all available colors as well as calculating the nearest match for a given RGB color.
The 256colors.sh script does support two different modes of operation:
Usage: ./256colors.sh <action> [options ...]
Actions:
grid [colors per row] [skipped start colors]
Print a grid of all terminal colors in the given format.
A line break is printed after the given amount of colors has been outputted.
An arbitrary amount of colors may be skipped at the start of the table.
Both arguments are optional. By default 6 colors per line are printed, while
the first 16 colors are skipped
calculate <r> <g> <b>
Calculate the best match for the given rgb color (0-255)
The grid operation does output a nicely formatted table of all available color codes inside your current terminal emulation.
The calculate operation tries to find the nearest possible matching colorcode
for a given RGB color value. The color has to be provided as a tuple of three
values ranging from 0-255, each of them providing information about one
color channel.
