The farge from siphonay

farge's Introduction

_{✨ Click on a pixel on your screen and show its color value ✨}

farge is command line tool to select pixel on the screen and return the value of the color in either HEX or RGB format. The color code is automatically saved to the clipboard. If you want to save the color, farge is able to show the color in a image viewer with the color code on it. This tool is able to use a varaiety of image viewers like feh, m̀pv andsxiv.

Dependencies

bash
imagemagick
colorpicker (https://github.com/ym1234/colorpicker)
feh (Other: mpv or sxiv, but you must specify it using the --image-viewer flag)

Installation

Install using `make`

# Clone the repo
$ git clone https://github.com/sdushantha/farge

# Change your current directory to farge
$ cd farge

# Install it
$ sudo make install

Install it locally

# Download the farge source code, save as farge
# and make it executeable
$ curl -L https://git.io/raw-farge > farge && chmod +x farge

# Then move farge to somewhere in your $PATH
# Here is an example
$ mv farge ~/scripts/

Usage

$ farge --help
usage: farge [-h] [--no-preview] [--no-color-code] [--rbg]  [--version]
 
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Click on a pixel on your screen and show its color value

optional arguments:
   --help                show this help message and exit
   --no-preview          dont show the selected color in a preview window
   --no-color-code       dont write the color code on the preview window
   --rgb                 show the color code as RGB instead of HEX
   --image-viewer        image viewer to use to show the preview (feh, mpv, sxiv)
   --version             show the version of kunst you are using