drogel/colored

A Flutter app that helps developers and designers work with colors.

An open-source Flutter app that helps developers and designers work with colors.

About

The purpose of this project is to develop a useful tool to convert, explore, and manipulate colors for developers and designers, that works on desktop, web and mobile devices. Try it out on Flutter web!.

Colored aims to be light-weight, fast and easy to use. It is based on the BLoC pattern, using a Domain-Driven Design. It leverages a massive color dictionary curated by David Aerne, which can be found here.

This project has been built using the Flutter framework, which allows to build an app for mobile, desktop & web, from a single codebase.

Features

• Color converter: convert any color to and from the available formats: Hex, RGB, HSL and HSV.
• Color naming: explore the RGB space and get the name of the color you are looking for.
• Color search: search in the color dictionary. Look up by name or by hex value.
• Color families: get suggestions of color families based on color names.
• Color palettes: search in the color palette dictionary, and get suggestions of common color palettes.

Download & install

First, clone the repository with the 'clone' command.

$ git clone https://github.com/drogel/colored.git

Then, download either Android Studio or Visual Studio Code, with their respective Flutter editor plugins. For more information about Flutter installation procedure, check the official install guide.

Install dependencies from pubspec.yaml by running flutter packages get from the project root (see using packages documentation for details and how to do this in the editor).

There you go, you can now open & edit the project. Enjoy!

Built with

• Flutter - Beautiful native apps in record time.
• Android Studio - Tools for building apps on every type of Android device.
• David Aerne's massive color dictionary - A handpicked list of thousands of unique color names.

Authors

• Diego Rogel - GitHub.

Contributing

If you want to take the time to make this project better, please read the contributing guides first. Then, you can open an new issue, of a pull request.

License

This project is licensed under the GNU GPL v3 License - see the LICENSE.md file for details.