colornamer-rs

Give me a color and I will name it.

colornamer-rs is in the early stages of development and the api should be considered unstable

About

Naming things is one of the hard things in computer science.

Colornamer-rs is a library written in Rust that helps you come up with a good name for a color.

It does this by converting the color to Lab color space and using the Delta E formula to compare the color difference in a list of colors with known names and finding the nearest neighbor.

Example

extern crate colornamer;

use colornamer::{ColorNamer, Colors};

fn main() {
    let colornamer = ColorNamer::new(Colors::HTML);
    let name: String = colornamer.name_hex_color("#1E90FF").unwrap()

    println!("I will call this color '{}'", name);
}

Lists

The color names are derived from several lists:

• roygbiv
• basic
• HTML
• X11
• Pantone
• ntc - an astounding collection of over 1500 named colors.

Acknowledgements

This library is based on the wonderful color-namer library for nodejs.

Color difference formulas were found at easyrgb.com.

Further reading:

• Wikipedia article for color distance.

License

MIT (see LICENSE)