---
name: "colorname"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "colorname"
version: "0.4+dfsg.1-3"
release: "Debian 9 (Stretch)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/colorname"
---

# colorname(1)

utility to associate a name to a color

## NAME

colorname - utility to associate a name to a color

## SYNOPSIS

**colorname**

## DESCRIPTION

**colorname** tries to assign a name to a color using external color definitions and a little math.

For this it calculates the Euclidean distance between the currently selected color and all predefined colors, either in the YIQ, RGB or HSV color space.

## AUTHOR

**Philippe 'demod' Neumann \<colorname@demod.org\>**\
 **Gina 'foosel' Häußge \<gina@foosel.org\>**

This manual page was written by **David Paleino \<dapal@debian.org\>**, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).