Named colors

Named colors

The names of available colors are stored in alphabetical order in the dictionary Colors.color_names:

color_names = Dict(
    "aliceblue"            => (240, 248, 255),
    "antiquewhite"         => (250, 235, 215),
    "antiquewhite1"        => (255, 239, 219),
    ...

Named colors are available as RGB{N0f8} using:

julia> using Colors

julia> color = colorant"indianred"
RGB{N0f8}(0.804,0.361,0.361)

or

julia> cname = "indianred"
"indianred"

julia> color = parse(Colorant, cname)
RGB{N0f8}(0.804,0.361,0.361)

Whites

Grays

Reds

Oranges

Yellows

Greens

Cyans

Blues

Purples

Browns

Pinks

These colors can be converted to RGB{N0f32} (for example) using:

julia> using FixedPointNumbers
julia> RGB{N0f32}(color)
RGB{N0f32}(0.803922,0.360784,0.360784)