Convert RGB color to English color name, like 'green' with Python
It looks like webcolors will allow you to do this:
rgb_to_name(rgb_triplet, spec='css3')
Convert a 3-tuple of integers, suitable for use in an rgb() color triplet, to its corresponding normalized color name, if any such name exists; valid values are html4, css2, css21 and css3, and the default is css3.
Example:
>>> rgb_to_name((0, 0, 0))'black'
it is vice-versa-able:
>>> name_to_rgb('navy')(0, 0, 128)
To find the closest colour name:
However webcolors
raises an exception if it can't find a match for the requested colour. I've written a little fix that delivers the closest matching name for the requested RGB colour. It matches by Euclidian distance in the RGB space.
import webcolorsdef closest_colour(requested_colour): min_colours = {} for key, name in webcolors.css3_hex_to_names.items(): r_c, g_c, b_c = webcolors.hex_to_rgb(key) rd = (r_c - requested_colour[0]) ** 2 gd = (g_c - requested_colour[1]) ** 2 bd = (b_c - requested_colour[2]) ** 2 min_colours[(rd + gd + bd)] = name return min_colours[min(min_colours.keys())]def get_colour_name(requested_colour): try: closest_name = actual_name = webcolors.rgb_to_name(requested_colour) except ValueError: closest_name = closest_colour(requested_colour) actual_name = None return actual_name, closest_namerequested_colour = (119, 172, 152)actual_name, closest_name = get_colour_name(requested_colour)print "Actual colour name:", actual_name, ", closest colour name:", closest_name
Output:
Actual colour name: None , closest colour name: cadetblue
For those who, like me, want a more familiar colour name, you can use the CSS 2.1 colour names, also provided by webcolors
:
- aqua:
#00ffff
- black:
#000000
- blue:
#0000ff
- fuchsia:
#ff00ff
- green:
#008000
- grey:
#808080
- lime:
#00ff00
- maroon:
#800000
- navy:
#000080
- olive:
#808000
- purple:
#800080
- red:
#ff0000
- silver:
#c0c0c0
- teal:
#008080
- white:
#ffffff
- yellow:
#ffff00
- orange:
#ffa500
Just use fraxel's excellent answer and code for getting the closest colour, adapted to CSS 2.1:
def get_colour_name(rgb_triplet): min_colours = {} for key, name in webcolors.css21_hex_to_names.items(): r_c, g_c, b_c = webcolors.hex_to_rgb(key) rd = (r_c - rgb_triplet[0]) ** 2 gd = (g_c - rgb_triplet[1]) ** 2 bd = (b_c - rgb_triplet[2]) ** 2 min_colours[(rd + gd + bd)] = name return min_colours[min(min_colours.keys())]