hexName: Find the closest named colour to a given six character hex...

In johngodlee/JLGMisc: Various convenience functions

Find the closest named colour to a given six character hex colour

Description

Find the closest named colour to a given six character hex colour

Usage

hexName(x, method = "rgb", metric = "euclidean")

Arguments

x	vector of six digit hex colours
method	colour space, either "rgb" or "hsv".
metric	distance metric, either "euclidean" or "manhattan".

Details

If metric is "euclidean", distances are root sum-of-squares differences. "manhattan" distances are the sum of absolute differences. The named colours come from the list of 657 named colours stored in R, accessible using the colors() function.

Value

vector of nearest named colour

Examples

hexName(c("#117733", "#b58900", "#855C75"))

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