Sane color handling of osx's accent and highlight color from the commandline

Last update: Nov 17, 2022

Overview

osx-colors

Sane command line color customisation for osx, no more fiddling about with defaults, internal apple color constants and rgb color codes

Say you want to change your Accent and Highlight Color to Green like this

If you wanted to change it via terminal, normally you'd need to do this

$ defaults write -g AppleAccentColor -string 3
$ defaults write -g AppleHighlightColor -string "0.752941 0.964706 0.678431 Green"

Instead.... do this 😄

$ osx-colors set green

Or to set your Accent & Highlight color based on the wallpaper pallete generated from pywal also requires jq

$ osx-colors set $(jq --raw-output '.colors.color9' < ~/.cache/wal/colors.json)

Features

Sane color handling using color names and a single command
Provide it a color in hex and it'll find the "nearest" available apple color to it and set it to this, this is awesome if you use pywal and want matching accent/highlight colors to your wallpaper
Restarts Finder,Docker,System Preferences etc upon setting so colors can be immediately seen

Why

I'm a huge fan of pywal and what I thought would complete the color scheme would be Accent & Highlight colors in osx that were based on the generated color palette of the wallaper, however I wasn't able to find anything that did it and color management from the commandline simply sucked, so I wrote this for my personal needs

Limitations

At present you can only set both the AccentColor and HighlightColor together, however the HighlightColor can be customized to any color in the UI (from what I can see)
Finding the nearest "color" isn't perfect but i've found it good enough, welcome alternative algorithms/solutions to this

Getting Started

Dependencies

MacOS Monterey (It probably works on others I just haven't tested it!)
Python 3.8 or greater

Installing

pip install osx-colors

Usage

To set the Accent and Highlight color to Red

$ osx-colors set red
Setting the 'Accent Color' to 'red'
Setting the 'Highlight Color' to 'red'
Restarting Finder, Spotlight and System Preferences, others may need to be restarted manually

To set the Accent and Highlight color to the closest color to the HEX color provided

$ osx-colors set 0029ff
Searching for the closest Apple color to '0029ff' we found 'blue'
Setting the 'Accent Color' to 'blue'
Setting the 'Highlight Color' to 'blue'
Restarting Finder, Spotlight and System Preferences, others may need to be restarted manually

For more usage instructions see

$ osx-colors --help

Contributing

Feel free to lodge an issue regarding a feature request/bug report and we'll go from there!

All contributions welcome 🙂

Running the tests

$ make test

For other build tasks see Makefile

Versioning

We use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the Releases on this repository.

TODO

Ability to get colors - not sure of use case?
Ability to set a custom Highlight color

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license

Acknowledgments

Thanks to ofstack for the code to match the "nearest" color, i'm no color scientist
Thanks to quantum_libet on reddit for a rundown on the insanity of color management via the terminal

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Comments

Add the iMac colours to colour options available

Since the new 2021 iMacs came out, they've had new customisable accent colours which you can get with the simple terminal command, but these aren't available on this yet defaults write -g NSColorSimulateHardwareAccent -bool YES defaults write -g NSColorSimulatedHardwareEnclosureNumber -int}

Therefore, you could add these colours (there's 6 of them) to the database thing to check for matches to those colours as well.

Other than that its a really cool project!!!

opened by xQueenAurorax 1

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Add quiet mode with --quiet

Minor cleanups + improved test coverage

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v1.0.3(Apr 15, 2022)

Fix issues on PyPI
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Add installation instructions as we hopefully now have a package PyPI
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Initial Release! 💯
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Sane color handling of osx's accent and highlight color from the commandline

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Overview

osx-colors

Features

Why

Limitations

Getting Started

Dependencies

Installing

Usage

Contributing

Running the tests

Versioning

TODO

License

Acknowledgments

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Releases(v1.1.0)

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v1.0.4(Apr 15, 2022)

v1.0.3(Apr 15, 2022)

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