Color-manager/readme.md

Color Manager

Roadmap | Features | Use | Requests | Contribute

Color Manager is a program for recoloring and manipulating existing icon packs, wallpapers and themes. The program is designed for NovaOS and is currently in early development. The first release will be late August 2023. In the meantime, this repository will act as a preview.

Multichromatic recoloring of large pngs/jpgs is still slow. Monochromatic recoloring is near-instant.

Note: If you publish anything that was generated using this program, make sure to credit the original creator and this repository.

Roadmap

• Basic framework for manipulating icon packs.
• Grayscale, monochromatic and multichromatic recoloring functions.
• Command-line interface.
• Graphical user interface based on the GTK framework.
• Python pip package.
• Support pngs and jpgs.
• Speed up multichrome recoloring for pngs and jpgs.
• Basic framework for manipulating GTK, Cinnamon and Metacity themes.
• Intelligent color inversion function.
• Function for adding basic geometry to the backgrounds of icons.
• GNU/Linux binary.

Features

Currently, two types of recoloring operations are supported:

Type	Result	Speed	Supports
Monochrome	A monochromatic variant, colored by appropriate shades of the provided base color.	~5000 svgs/sec	svg, png, jpg
Multichrome	A multichromatic variant, where all colors are replaced by their nearest perceived equivalent that adheres to the provided color palette.	~70 svgs/sec	svg

Speeds were recorded with an Intel i7-4770K CPU. Any pack can serve as the base for any color palette or base color.

Using the Program

Either import utils into your own script and call the recoloring functions, e.g.:

from color_manager import utils

src     = "packs/test_pack"
name    = "my_pack"
dest    = "~/Downloads"
hsl     = (0.5, 0.5, 0.5) # = rc.norm_hsl(180, 50, 50)
palette = "palettes/dracula.json"

utils.recolor(src, dest, name, hsl) # hsl or palette.

Or launch the GUI by running python3 color_manager/gui.py in a terminal from the project's root directory. The GUI will adopt your active theme. Dependencies: colormath, tqdm and pillow. For the GUI, pygobject (GTK bindings) must also be installed.

Requests

Until the release of Color Manager, I will be taking requests for icon packs and recolorings. Simply submit a feature request here on the repository containing the following:

• The name of an open-source icon pack that will serve as the base look.
• For a monochromatic variant, a single hexadecimal value representing a color.
• For particular color palettes, a list of hexadecimal values or the name of a popular palette.

Please star the repository or consider donating, and I will upload your requested variant. Also consider showing the creators of the original icon packs some love.

Preview and download already fullfilled requests here:

Papirus-Mini Mono- and Multichromatic Variants

The original papirus set is massive (>100MB), so this version has been simplified, e.g. icons no longer have multiple versions for slightly different icon sizes. As a result, it only takes up ~10MB when zipped.

Name	Examples	Status
Original		Source
Nord		Finished
Dracula		Released
Catppuccin		Released

Name	Examples	Status
Galactic		Released
Strawberry		Released
Amazon		Finished
Pacific		Finished
Cobalt		Finished
Bumblebee		Released
Goldenrod		Released

Contribute

If you are experienced with packaging projects such as this for easy distribution, please contact me.

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Legal Notice: This repository, including any and all of its forks and derivatives, may NOT be used in the development or training of any machine learning model of any kind, without the explicit permission of the owner of the original repository.