What the color

Get meaningful names for colors through the terminal. Based on name-that-color.

Getting started

Currently the only way to get what_the_color to your environment is get it through cargo (the package manager bundled with rust) directly from source (GitHub).

Check your rust version by running rustc --version and ensure you have version 1.45 or higher. If you don't have rust installed, you can install it via homebrew (brew install rust), or asdf.

With a valid version of rust installed you can install what_the_color to your environment by executing this in your terminal (current path doesn't matter):

cargo install --root ~/.cargo --git https://github.com/johantell/what_the_color --tag v0.1.0 what_the_color

Also, if you haven't already you have to export cargos bin folder into your path to make what_the_color available through your environment (typically put in your ~/.profile):

export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.cargo/bin"

Usage

what_the_color takes a input that can be transformed into a hexadecimal color. That means that you can copy-paste hex codes easily from your CSS:

$ what_the_color #faa

Development

Assuming you have cargo (the package manager bundled with rust) installed you should only have to:

# Run the test suite
cargo test

# Run the tool
cargo run