Introduction

The purpose of this module is to provide a way to easily use color books in Javascript.

Install

npm i color-books

Usage

Please see example.js as an usage example:

const { booknames, load } = require('color-books');

let totalCount = 0
for (const name of booknames) {
  const book = load(name);
  totalCount += book.colorCount;
  console.log(`${name}: ${book.colorCount} colors`);
}
console.log(`===\nTotal color count: ${totalCount}`);
console.log("===");
const { title, colorSpace, records, isSpot, colorCount } = load('PANTONE+ Solid Coated');
console.log(title, `\n\tColor space: ${colorSpace}`);
console.log(`\tIs spot color?: ${isSpot}`);
console.log(`\t'PANTONE Orange 021 C':`, records['PANTONE Orange 021 C'].components)

The output would be:

ANPA Color: 300 colors
DIC Color Guide: 1280 colors
FOCOLTONE: 763 colors
...
PANTONE+ CMYK Coated: 2868 colors
PANTONE+ Metallic Coated: 301 colors
...
TRUMATCH: 2091 colors
===
Total color count: 19198
===
PANTONE+® Solid Coated
    Color space: LAB
    Is spot color?: true
    'PANTONE Orange 021 C': [ 60.7843137254902, 66, 85 ]

Details

It contains 19,198 color records in 23 books as following:

• ANPA Color: 300
• DIC Color Guide: 1280
• FOCOLTONE: 763
• HKS E: 88"code": "1-2",
• HKS K Process: 86
• HKS K: 88
• HKS N Process: 86
• HKS N: 86
• HKS Z Process: 86
• HKS Z: 50
• PANTONE+ CMYK Coated: 2868
• PANTONE+ CMYK Uncoated: 2868
• PANTONE+ Color Bridge Coated: 1313
• PANTONE+ Color Bridge Uncoated: 1313
• PANTONE+ Metallic Coated: 301
• PANTONE+ Pastels & Neons Coated: 210
• PANTONE+ Pastels & Neons Uncoated: 210
• PANTONE+ Premium Metallics Coated: 300
• PANTONE+ Solid Coated: 1341
• PANTONE+ Solid Uncoated: 1341
• TOYO 94 COLOR FINDER: 1050
• TOYO COLOR FINDER: 1079
• TRUMATCH: 2091

The meta-data in each book includes:

• version: the book version
• title: e.g. "PANTONE+® CMYK Coated"
• prefix": e.g. "PANTONE P "
• suffix": e.g. " C"
• colorCount": 2868
• colorSpace": "CMYK"
• channels": 4
• isSpot: true / false
• record: color records dictionary

The color recod consists of 3 fields:

• name: e.g. "PANTONE P Process Cyan C"
• code: e.g. "PCYANS",
• components: e.g. [100, 0, 0, 0] -- CMYK has 4 numbers; RGB and LAB has just 3 numbers.