Gradient256

After searching for a while, i couldn't find a tool to easily make and use color256 gradients in my terminal (skill issue?). So Gradient256 were born. An easy, fast, simple and reliable way to make gradients embedded as a library for convenience.

Installation

For now, you can't instal Gradient256.

How to use

To import it:

import Gradient256

Making a color gradient

Making a color gradient is easy, making a 5 colors gradient between white and black simply do:

white-black_gradient = Gradient256.gradient((255,255,255), (0,0,0), 5)

Remember, this library only works with RGB-255 max codes. This function will return a list of tuples representing RGB codes. The output of the code above would look like this: [(255, 255, 255), (208, 208, 208), (158, 158, 158), (98, 98, 98), (48, 48, 48)]

Applying a color gradient into a string

Applying a gradient into a string is also an elementary task.

gr-cy=Gradient256.grad_text((0,255,0),(0,255,255),'Easy color gradients. Green - Cyan')
re-ye=Gradient256.grad_text((255,0,0),(255,255,0),'Easy color gradients. Red - Yellow')
bl-wh=Gradient256.grad_text((0,0,255),(255,255,255),'Easy color gradients. Blue White')

The resulting output should looks somewhat like this: [Image will be added soon]

Development

As it is, the code presented isn't perfect but does the job. In the future i plan to add diretional gradients (vertical, diagonal), support to ASCII art (a way to apply gradients to ASCII art easly), a better and smoother gradient algorithm and much more.

Special thanks

I would like to thank @KaasKroket for helping me with the oklab to rgb converter.