[ANN] colors 0.0.1 – colorspace manipulation in pure OCaml

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The main reasons are:

  • usability – its trivial for folks to put tag triples with their color profile – if you have 3 floats you can pack 'em up and say “this is an `rgb or an `xyz color”.

  • flexibility – some functions can work over multiple types of colors, say a generic mixer/blender can just say its input type is [ rgb | xyz ] -> xyz.

    Other functions like the pretty printer can take in all colors so their type is [ rgb | lrgb | xyz | luv | ansi ]

  • extensibility – if you’re currently handling any colors, we can still add new profiles without breaking your code.

We could’ve used a record too for each type: {r;g;b}, {x;y;z}, {sr;sg;sb}, etc, but the tuple of int/float felt the most ergonomic.

I’m a big fan of the maximum type-safety that will not get in the way of DX.

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