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Colors

Handle colors and their systems easily. Based on Adobe InDesigns color books. Included libraries are:

• HKS E Process
• HKS E
• HKS K Process
• HKS K
• HKS N Process
• HKS N
• HKS Z Process
• HKS Z
• PANTONE+ CMYK Coated
• PANTONE+ CMYK Uncoated
• PANTONE+ Color Bridge Coated
• PANTONE+ Color Bridge Uncoated
• PANTONE+ Metallic Coated
• PANTONE+ Pastels + Neons Coated
• PANTONE+ Pastels + Neons Uncoated
• PANTONE+ Premium Metallics Coated
• PANTONE+ Solid Coated
• PANTONE+ Solid Uncoated
• RAL

Attention

This repository is meant to get values of PANTONE, HEX or RAL colors. The conversion into other systems isn't 100% perfect, because there are different methods to convert from one system into another. Don't take these values too serious.

Installation

This library is made for the use with Composer. Add it to your project by running $ composer require bitandblack/colors.

Usage

You can use color values or color systems, depending on your needs.

Color values in different color systems

Set up a color like that:

<?php

use Color\Value\CMYK;

$red = new CMYK(0, 100, 90, 0);

Or when the color is based on a library:

<?php

use Color\Value\PANTONE as PANTONEValue;
use Color\System\PANTONE as PANTONESystem;
use Color\System\Enum\PANTONE as PANTONEEnum;

$pantoneSolidCoated = new PANTONESystem(
    PANTONEEnum::PANTONE_PLUS_SOLID_COATED()
);

$red = new PANTONEValue('200', $pantoneSolidCoated);

Available color systems are:

• CIELab
• CMY
• CMYK
• HEX
• HKS
• HSL
• HSLA
• PANTONE
• RAL
• RGB
• RGBA
• XYZ

Get values from another color system by calling

<?php

$sameRedDifferentValue = $red->getRGB(); 

Color systems and similar values

In the color systems of PANTONE, HKS and RAL you can find (similar) colors based on RGB, HEX or CMYK values by calling

<?php

use Color\Value\CMYK as CMYKValue;
use Color\System\PANTONE as PANTONESystem;
use Color\System\Enum\PANTONE as PANTONEEnum;

$pantoneSolidCoated = new PANTONESystem(
    PANTONEEnum::PANTONE_PLUS_SOLID_COATED()
);

$red = new CMYKValue(0, 100, 90, 0);

$redsInPantone = $pantoneSolidCoated->findColor($red, 0); 

The second parameter in findColor() defines the tolerance in percent. For example 0 returns only a 100% match and 5 allows to return colors that differ about 5% in every single color value.

Complementary color

You can get the complementary color by calling getComplementary(). This will return a HSL color which you can convert as usual into other systems.

Help

If you have any questions, feel free to contact us under hello@bitandblack.com.

Further information about Bit&Black can be found under www.bitandblack.com.