# zenangst/Hue

:art: Hue is the all-in-one coloring utility that you'll ever need.

Repository: https://github.com/zenangst/Hue
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/hue
Homepage: https://github.com/zenangst
Language: Swift
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: hue, hex, color, gradient
Last push: 2023-09-15T12:30:19+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3903, "days_push": 1083, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3554, forks 223 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:09.616486+00:00)

## What it is
Hue is a Swift utility library for iOS that extends UIColor with convenient color handling features. It provides hex color initialization, color component access, blending, gradient creation, and image color extraction.

## Use cases
- initialize UIColor from hex strings like #ffffff
- create gradient layers from an array of colors
- extract dominant colors from a UIImage
- check if a color is dark or black-or-white
- get red, green, blue, and alpha components of a color
- blend and adjust colors with hue, saturation, and brightness

## When to choose
- you're building an iOS or UIKit app in Swift and need ergonomic color helpers
- you want to create gradients from UIColor arrays with minimal code
- you need to extract a color palette from images
- you frequently work with hex color values in Swift

## When to avoid
- you're building for Android, web, or non-Apple platforms
- your project uses SwiftUI exclusively and you don't touch UIColor
- you need actively maintained dependencies - the last release was 2023 and development appears slow
- you need advanced color science like wide gamut or perceptual color spaces

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, image-processing
- domain: mobile-development, graphics, frontend
- platform: -
- tags: color-utility, uicolor, hex-color, gradients, cocoapods, swift, ios, mobile

## Member repositories
- zenangst/Hue (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:09.616486+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:34:18.477972+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/zenangst/Hue (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:09.616486+00:00, sha e49efe95c3b9)
  - homepage: https://github.com/zenangst (fetched 2026-08-29T09:28:07.183306+00:00, sha f050a4e31c7b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.