ofxColorsBrowser

Overview

An openFrameworks add-on to browse many named color libraries imported from JSON files.

Screenshots

ofxSurfingColors

Color Libraries

Pantone (+2000 colors). Sanzo Wada: A Dictionary of Color Combinations from @dblodorn. Crayola from @jjdelc. Cheprasov from @cheprasov. Open Color from @pd-andy. OF Native named colors.

Features

Updatable with other text files based libraries (JSON, XML, or other colors libs/addons). Cards with seteable amount of colors. Sort the library by Hue, Name or with the original sorting. GUI with clickable colored and named boxes. The interface can be completely disabled to simplify. But still exposing access to the colors. Key commands, browse with arrow keys and an ofxGui debug panel. Basic exposed parameters to integrate in other apps/add-ons. Store/Recall settings.

Usage

ofApp.h

``.cpp

include "ofxColorsBrowser.h"

ofxColorsBrowser colorBrowser; ofFloatColor colorBg;

ofApp.cpp

.cpp ofApp::setup() { colorBrowser.setupColorPtr(colorBg); // set local target color "receiver" colorBrowser.setup(); }

ofApp::draw() { ofBackground(colorBg); // auto updated when changes }

Dependencies
ofxSurfingHelpers
ofxGui
ofxRectangleUtils  / DEVELOP BRANCH
ofxFontStash *
ofxSurfingImGui **
ofxImGui **
ofxWindowApp ***
Mark
Not required when
\
interface is disabled
ImGui is disabled
some example only
Already bundled into 

OF_ADDON/libs``. No need to add to the PROJECT GENERATOR!

• ofxOpenColor

Tested systems

• Windows10 / VS2017 / OF ~0.11
• macOS High Sierra / Xcode 9/10 / OF ~0.11

Author

Addon by @moebiusSurfing (ManuMolina). 2020.

_Thanks to @bakercp, @armadillu, @pd-andy and all the JSON packers linked above for their repositories._

License

MIT License.