The Color Library was developed at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) in collaboration with BIT Systems. The government has "unlimited rights" and is releasing this software to increase the impact of government investments by providing developers with the opportunity to take things in new directions. The software use, modification, and distribution rights are stipulated within the MIT license.
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Color is a Java library providing color representation with support for hex, RBG, arithmetic RBG, HSL, and integer colors.
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Color rgb = Color.color(154, 205, 50);
Color rgba = Color.color(255, 165, 0, 64);
Color rgbOpacity = Color.color(255, 165, 0, 0.25f);
Color arithmeticRGB = Color.color(1.0f, 0.64705882352f, 0.0f);
Color arithmeticRGBOpacity = Color.color(1.0f, 0.64705882352f, 0.0f,
0.25098039215f);
Color hex = Color.color("#BA55D3");
Color hexAlpha = Color.color("#D9FFFF00");
Color hexInteger = Color.color(0xFFC000);
Color hexIntegerAlpha = new Color(0x40FFA500);
Color integer = Color.color(16711680);
Color integerAlpha = Color.color(-12303292);
Color hexSingles = Color.color("FF", "C0", "CB");
Color hexSinglesAlpha = Color.color("00", "00", "00", "80");
Color hexSinglesOpacity = Color.color("FF", "A5", "00", 0.25f);
Color hsl = Color.color(new float[] { 300.0f, 1.0f, 0.2509804f });
Color hsla = Color
.color(new float[] { 60.0f, 1.0f, 0.5f, 0.85098039215f });
Color orangeAlpha = Color.color(ColorConstants.ORANGE, 120);
Color orangeOpacity = Color.color(ColorConstants.ORANGE, 0.25f);
Color color = Color.blue();
color.setAlpha(56);
String hexValue = color.getColorHex();
String hexShorthand = color.getColorHexShorthand();
String hexWithAlpha = color.getColorHexWithAlpha();
String hexShorthandWithAlpha = color.getColorHexShorthandWithAlpha();
int integerValue = color.getColor();
int integerAlphaValue = color.getColorWithAlpha();
int red = color.getRed();
float greenArithmetic = color.getGreenArithmetic();
String blueHex = color.getBlueHex();
String alphaHexShorthand = color.getAlphaHexShorthand();
float opacity = color.getOpacity();
float[] hslValue = color.getHSL();
float hue = color.getHue();
float saturation = color.getSaturation();
float lightness = color.getLightness();Pull from the Maven Central Repository (JAR, POM, Source, Javadoc)
<dependency>
<groupId>mil.nga</groupId>
<artifactId>color</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
</dependency>
Build this repository using Eclipse and/or Maven:
mvn clean install