Colours

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  dominant_colours, a CLI tool for finding dominant colours in an image

  A new tool for playing with images.

  Colours · 30 Nov 2021

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  Getting a tint colour from an image with Python and k‑means

  I want to display text next to an image that looks visually similar to the image, so I need to extract a tint colour.

  Colours · 19 Aug 2019

5 articles

• Using perceptual distance to create better headers · Colours · 12 Jan 2026

  I started picking colours for my site headers with a more perceptually uniform approach, so their colours look more correct to the human eye.

• Changing the macOS accent colour without System Preferences · macOS · 17 Nov 2022

  Updating the accent colour everywhere, with immediate effect, using a script written in Swift.

• Find the dominant colours in an image in your web browser · Colours · 7 May 2022

  Wrapping my CLI tool for finding dominant colours in a lightweight web app.

• Drawing coloured squares/text in my terminal with Python · Python · 29 Apr 2021

• Changing the accent colour of ICNS icons · Colours · 6 Jul 2020

  Playing with macOS ICNS image files to create colourful new icons.

2 notes

• Get a Palette colour as a command-line argument with Clap · Rust · 12 May 2024

  Wrapping a Palette:Srgb in a struct and implementing FromStr for the struct allows you to take hexadecimal colours as command-line inputs.

• How to use hex colours with the palette crate · Rust · 4 Sep 2022

  You can use Srgb::from_str() to parse a hexadecimal string as a colour in the palette crate.