Introduction
The purpose of this module is to provide a way to easily use color books in Javascript.
Install
npm i color-books
Usage
Please see example.js as an usage example:
const { booknames, load } = require('color-books');
let totalCount = 0
for (const name of booknames) {
const book = load(name);
totalCount += book.colorCount;
console.log(`${name}: ${book.colorCount} colors`);
}
console.log(`===\nTotal color count: ${totalCount}`);
console.log("===");
const { title, colorSpace, records, isSpot, colorCount } = load('PANTONE+ Solid Coated');
console.log(title, `\n\tColor space: ${colorSpace}`);
console.log(`\tIs spot color?: ${isSpot}`);
console.log(`\t'PANTONE Orange 021 C':`, records['PANTONE Orange 021 C'].components)
The output would be:
ANPA Color: 300 colors
DIC Color Guide: 1280 colors
FOCOLTONE: 763 colors
...
PANTONE+ CMYK Coated: 2868 colors
PANTONE+ Metallic Coated: 301 colors
...
TRUMATCH: 2091 colors
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Total color count: 19198
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PANTONE+® Solid Coated
Color space: LAB
Is spot color?: true
'PANTONE Orange 021 C': [ 60.7843137254902, 66, 85 ]
Details
It contains 19,198 color records in 23 books as following:
- ANPA Color: 300
- DIC Color Guide: 1280
- FOCOLTONE: 763
- HKS E: 88"code": "1-2",
- HKS K Process: 86
- HKS K: 88
- HKS N Process: 86
- HKS N: 86
- HKS Z Process: 86
- HKS Z: 50
- PANTONE+ CMYK Coated: 2868
- PANTONE+ CMYK Uncoated: 2868
- PANTONE+ Color Bridge Coated: 1313
- PANTONE+ Color Bridge Uncoated: 1313
- PANTONE+ Metallic Coated: 301
- PANTONE+ Pastels & Neons Coated: 210
- PANTONE+ Pastels & Neons Uncoated: 210
- PANTONE+ Premium Metallics Coated: 300
- PANTONE+ Solid Coated: 1341
- PANTONE+ Solid Uncoated: 1341
- TOYO 94 COLOR FINDER: 1050
- TOYO COLOR FINDER: 1079
- TRUMATCH: 2091
The meta-data in each book includes:
- version: the book version
- title: e.g. "PANTONE+® CMYK Coated"
- prefix": e.g. "PANTONE P "
- suffix": e.g. " C"
- colorCount": 2868
- colorSpace": "CMYK"
- channels": 4
- isSpot: true / false
- record: color records dictionary
The color recod consists of 3 fields:
- name: e.g. "PANTONE P Process Cyan C"
- code: e.g. "PCYANS",
- components: e.g. [100, 0, 0, 0] -- CMYK has 4 numbers; RGB and LAB has just 3 numbers.