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Thanks! Colormath does an amazing job handling the mathematical conversions between color spaces, but has (at least to me) a somewhat verbose API. Spectra wraps

by jsvine 12y ago

Thanks! Colormath does an amazing job handling the mathematical conversions between color spaces, but has (at least to me) a somewhat verbose API. Spectra wraps that API in something simpler, and adds scales, ranges, blending, brightening/darkening, and saturation/desaturation. Spectra uses grapefruit for parsing HTML names and hexcodes.

japhyr 12y ago
I'm most excited about the color scales. It looks like a helpful tool for situations where the standard colormaps in matplotlib/pyplot don't work well. Is that an appropriate use case? I also like seeing nbviewer used for documentation, I haven't seen that very often.
- jsvine 12y ago
  > It looks like a helpful tool for situations where the standard colormaps in matplotlib/pyplot don't work well. Is that an appropriate use case? Yes, that's definitely the type of use-case I had in mind. Another big one: Choropleth maps. > I also like seeing nbviewer used for documentation, I haven't seen that very often. Glad to hear it! It's my first attempt at writing documentation in an IPython notebook. Seemed like a good fit for something so visual.