colors.dev is a platform dedicated to exploring Color Characteristics, providing insights into Color Space Conversions, and promoting Digital Color Standardization. It also features tools for High Precision Color Calculations, ensuring that users can achieve accurate and consistent color results.

Colors
Colors

colors.dev is a platform dedicated to exploring Color Characteristics, providing insights into Color Space Conversions, and promoting Digital Color Standardization. It also features tools for High Precision Color Calculations, ensuring that users can achieve accurate and consistent color results.

Precision Color Solutions for Every Development Project

Precision Color Solutions for Every Development ProjectPrecision Color Solutions for Every Development ProjectPrecision Color Solutions for Every Development Project

Building libraries to aid in the digital color standardization process by helping to standardize and generate 24bit color names, while easily identifying each of its color characteristics. This also facilitates high precision color calculations and supports color space conversions.

Colors.Dev Mission Statement

For Developers and Organizations Alike

Colors.Dev is dedicated to advancing a practical and consistent standard for digital color standardization through robust, open-source tools and data resources. One of our primary initiatives—currently in an active data-gathering phase—is addressing the 'naming gap' within the 24-bit color spectrum. While modern displays can represent over 16.7 million colors, only a small fraction have widely recognized names. Our goal is to research, catalog, and help define meaningful naming conventions by collaborating with global organizations, registries, and the developer community. Beyond naming, Colors.Dev is working toward a unified framework for color classification and color space conversions. By standardizing how color characteristics are described, converted, and referenced across systems, we aim to simplify color workflows for developers, designers, and software platforms worldwide, including high precision color calculations. Community participation and collaboration are strongly encouraged as we continue building an open ecosystem for color science and digital color tooling.

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Color Space Library

Repository: Colors.Dev

A high-performance, cross-platform C library designed for efficient color computation, supporting Color Characteristics and facilitating Color Space Conversions with seamless multi-language interoperability. This library also contributes to Digital Color Standardization and enables High Precision Color Calculations. 


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Key Features

Our system offers full 24-bit true color support for console rendering and visualization, ensuring accurate representation of Color Characteristics. It features precise mathematical implementations for major color spaces, including RGB, HSV / HSB, HSL, CMYK, XYZ, LAB, LUV, and LCH. Additionally, it supports Color Space Conversions between Linear and sRGB, enhancing Digital Color Standardization across applications. With a focus on High Precision Color Calculations, the design includes no external dependencies and is available as both static and dynamic libraries for flexible integration.

  • Color Space Conversions: Convert between RGB, HSV, HSL, CMYK, XYZ, Lab, Lch, Luv, sRGB, and Linear color spaces.
  • Color Characteristics: Tone, Temperature, Brightness, Luminance, Contrast Ratio, and more.
  • Color Harmony: Complementary, Analogous, Triadic, and Tetradic color scheme generation.
  • Color Representation: CMYK Modifiers, Hex and Decimal format conversions.
  • Console Color Support: Set 24-bit true colors for foreground and background in console applications
  • ANSI Escape Sequences: Automatic ANSI color code generation for terminal rendering
  • Cross-Language Support: Native C/C++ library with .NET interop examples
  • High Precision: Raw value storage for lossless round-trip conversions
  • Hex & Decimal Export: Convert RGB colors to hex strings and decimal integers

Getting Started

The repository includes example console demonstrations in both C and C# to illustrate integration and usage of various features, including Color Characteristics, Color Space Conversions, and High Precision Color Calculations. These examples are designed to support Digital Color Standardization efforts and provide practical insights into effective color management.


GitHub Repository: https://github.com/colors-dev/Colors.Dev

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