NAME

Convert::Color::Library - named lookup of colors from Color::Library

SYNOPSIS

Directly:

 use Convert::Color::Library;

 my $red = Convert::Color::Library->new( 'red' );

 # Only use the SVG dictionary
 my $brown = Convert::Color::Library->new( 'svg/brown' );

 # Use either HTML or SVG dictionary
 my $pink = Convert::Color::Library->new( 'html,svg/pink' );

Via Convert::Color:

 use Convert::Color;

 my $cyan = Convert::Color->new( 'lib:cyan' );

 my $darkcyan = Convert::Color->new( 'lib:windows/darkcyan' );

DESCRIPTION

This subclass of Convert::Color::RGB8 provides lookup of color names using Robert Krimen's Color::Library module. It therefore provides convenient access to named colours in many dictionaries, such as SVG, X11 and HTML.

CONSTRUCTOR

$color = Convert::Color::Library->new( $name )

Returns a new object to represent the named color.

If the name is of the form

 dicts/name

Then dicts is parsed as a comma-separated list of dictionary names to pass to Color::Library.

METHODS

$name = $color->name

$dict = $color->dict

Returns the name of the color within its dictionary, and the name of the dictionary itself.

TODO

• Consider an API for getting the list of dictionary names and colour names. That said, it's easy enough to do directly to Color::Library, so maybe not needed.

• Expose other dictionaries (SVG? Windows?) as named spaces, like the HTML one.

SEE ALSO

• Convert::Color - color space conversions

• Color::Library - An easy-to-use and comprehensive named-color library

• Convert::Color::HTML - color conversion using Color::Library::Dictionary::HTML

AUTHOR

Paul Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk>