colors

This page contains tutorials about the colors package.

Do’s and Don’ts

When utilizing a color constant, you must not change it’s RGBA values as that will change the value of the constant itself:

from colors import RED

print([x for x in RED])

RED.r = 128

In the above example, if you reload the plugin, the value for RED.r has been permanently changed. If you wish to get a different color, use the following instead:

from colors import Color
from colors import RED

# You can just set the color directly using the Color object
my_red = Color(128, 0, 0, 255)

# Or, you can utilize RED itself to create a different value
my_red = Color(*RED)
my_red.r = 128

Getting a different alpha value is a little bit easier:

from colors import RED

# Again, you DO NOT want to use the following
RED.a = 128

# Instead, use the "with_alpha" method of the Color object
my_red = RED.with_alpha(128)