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= Color Color is a Ruby library to provide basic RGB, CMYK, HSL, and other colourspace manipulation support to applications that require it. It also provides 152 named RGB colours (184 with spelling variations) that are commonly supported in HTML, SVG, and X11 applications. A technique for generating monochromatic contrasting palettes is also included.

The capabilities of the Color library are limited to pure mathematical manipulation of the colours based on colour theory without reference to colour profiles (such as sRGB or Adobe RGB). For most purposes, when working with the RGB and HSL colours, this won't matter. However, some colour models (like CIE Lab*) are not supported because Color does not yet support colour profiles, giving no meaningful way to convert colours in absolute colour spaces (like Lab*, XYZ) to non-absolute colour spaces (like RGB).

Color version 1.4 is the result of a project merge between color.rb 0.1.0 by Matt Lyon and color-tools 1.3 by Austin Ziegler. Please see History.txt for details on the changes this merge brings.

Copyright:: Copyright (c) 2005 - 2007 by Austin Ziegler and Matt Lyon Version:: 1.4.0 Homepage:: http://rubyforge.org/projects/color/ Licence:: MIT-Style; see Licence.txt

Color::Palette was developed based on techniques described by Andy "Malarkey" Clarke[1], implemented in JavaScript by Steve G. Chipman at SlayerOffice[2] and by Patrick Fitzgerald of BarelyFitz[3] in PHP.

[1] http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk/archives/creating_colour_palettes.html [2] http://slayeroffice.com/tools/color_palette/ [3] http://www.barelyfitz.com/projects/csscolor/

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