lucasb-eyer/go-colorful

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Go library for storing, converting, and manipulating colors across many color spaces including RGB, HSL, HSV, hex, CIE-Lab, CIE-Luv, HCL, HSLuv, and Oklab. It implements Go's color.Color interface and provides perceptually meaningful color distance and blending utilities.

Use cases

• convert colors between rgb and lab color spaces in go
• generate distinct random colors for players or chart series
• compare how similar two colors are perceptually
• create color palettes with even perceptual spacing
• blend or interpolate colors smoothly
• parse hex color strings and convert to hsl or oklab

When to choose

• you need accurate color space conversions in a Go program
• you need perceptually uniform color distance or interpolation
• you want to generate visually distinct color palettes
• you need gamma-correct linear RGB for rendering

When to avoid

• you need image file decoding or pixel-level image processing
• you work in a language other than Go
• you need color quantization or palette extraction from images

Facets

library · maturity stable

image-processing graphics math graphics data-visualization go cross-platform color-spaces cie-lab oklab hsluv palette-generation color-distance rgb game-development algorithms

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