A tangent to the current tangent: https://github.com/randyzwitch/NoveltyColors.jl now on METADATA. Would love any feedback or contributions.
On Monday, November 30, 2015 at 6:42:38 PM UTC-5, Jeffrey Sarnoff wrote: > > How about using dictionaries -- xkcd[:skyblue] = 0x06c2ac? This would > open up the way for source specific named colors (e.g. paints). > > > > On Monday, November 30, 2015 at 5:38:10 PM UTC-5, Alex Mellnik wrote: >> >> On a related note, I've been thinking that it would be nice to include >> the results of the xkcd color survey <https://xkcd.com/color/rgb/> in >> Colors.jl. Right now it has the CSS/SVG and X11 colors which is great for >> standardization, but sometimes you want to be able to get a RGB value >> corresponding to fairly specific and easy-to-remember color names (mocha, >> cerulean blue, etc). I was originally going to stick it in a different >> package, but there might be a nice way to separate these names in Colors.jl >> >> -A >> >> On Tuesday, November 24, 2015 at 2:08:35 PM UTC-8, Randy Zwitch wrote: >>> >>> Since the Julia ecosystem is getting bigger, I figured I'd propose this >>> here first and see what people think is the right way forward (instead of >>> wasting people's time at METADATA) >>> >>> In the R community, they've created two packages of novelty color >>> schemes: Wes Anderson <https://github.com/karthik/wesanderson> and >>> Beyonce <https://github.com/dill/beyonce>. While humorous, these color >>> palettes are interesting to me and I'd like to make them available in >>> Vega.jl (and Julia more broadly). Should I: >>> >>> 1) Not do it at all....because this is a serious, scientific community! >>> 2) Do two separate packages, mimicking R >>> 3) Create a single NoveltyColors.jl package, in case there are other >>> palettes that come up in the future >>> 4) Make a feature request at Colors.jl (really not my favorite choice, >>> since there is so much cited research behind the palettes) >>> >>> I neglected to mention ColorBrewer.jl (which Vega.jl uses), since >>> ColorBrewer is a known entity in the plotting community. >>> >>> What do people think? Note, I'm not looking for anyone to do the work >>> (I'll do it), just looking for packaging input. >>> >>
