unreleased

Features

Added support for parsing LCh colors, see #2 and #167 (@MForster)

Bugfixes

pastel pick does not display all colors in some terminals, see #121 and #168 (@Divoolej)

Changes

Other

Packaging

v0.9.0

Features

Added support for transparency / alpha values, see #131 and #162 (@superhawk610)
Added support for NO_COLOR environment variable, see #143 (@djmattyg007)
Added new color pickers: Gnome/Wayland via gdbus, zenity, yad, and wcolor (@sigmaSd, @pvonmoradi)

Packaging

Added shell completion files again, see #166 (@sharkdp)

v0.8.1

Features

Added From and Display traits for each color struct, see #133 (@bresilla)

Other

Updated lexical-core dependency to fix a compile error with newer Rust versions

Packaging

pastel is now available on snapstore, see #130 (@purveshpatel511)

v0.8.0

Features

Added CMYK output format, see #122 and #123 (@aeter)

Other

Completely new CI/CD system via GitHub Actions, see #120 (@rivy)

v0.7.1

Bugfixes

Fixed a bug with the new ansi-*-escapecode formats, see #116 (@bbkane)

v0.7.0

Changes

Breaking: the existing ansi-8bit and ansi-24bit formats have been changed to print out an escaped ANSI sequence that a user can see in the terminal output. The previously existing formats are now available as ansi-8bit-escapecode and ansi-24bit-escapecode. See #113 and #111.

Features

All CSS color formats are now supported (see #12)
Added support for multiple color stops for gradients (pastel gradient red blue yellow), see #49 (@felipe-fg)
Added -f/--force-color flag as an alias for --mode=24bit, see #48 (@samueldple)
Added --color-picker <cmd> to allow users to choose the colorpicker, see #96 (@d-dorazio)
Added input support for CIELAB, see #3/#101 (@MusiKid)
Added support for rgb(255 0 119), rgb(100%,0%,46.7%), gray(20%), and many more new CSS syntaxes, see #103 (@MusiKid)
Faster and more flexible color parser, adding even more CSS color formats, see #105 (@halfbro)

`pastel` library changes

distinct_colors is now available in the pastel::distinct module, see #95 (@rivy)

Bugfixes

Added support for non-color consoles (Windows 7), see #91 (@rivy)

Other

pastel is now available via Nix, see #100 (@davidtwco)

v0.6.1

Other

Enabled builds for arm, aarch64, and i686
Fixed build on 32bit platforms

v0.6.0

Features

Added colorblindness simulations via pastel colorblind, see #80 (@rozbb)
Added support for pre-determined colors in pastel distinct, see #88 (@d-dorazio)
Added a new set subcommand that can be used to set specific properties of a color (pastel set lightness 0.4, pastel set red 0, etc.), see #43
Show the color name in pastel show or pastel color if it is an exact match, for example: pastel color ff00ff will show "fuchsia", see #81 (@d-dorazio)
Add KColorChooser as a supported color picker, see #79 (@data-man)
Add macOS built-in color picker, see #84 (@erydo)
Added a new 'count' argument for pastel pick [<count>]

Changes

pastel distinct has seen massive speedups, see #83 (@d-dorazio)

Bugfixes

Mixing colors in HSL space with black or white will not rotate the hue towards red (hue 0°), see #76

Other

Pastel is now available via Homebrew, see README and #70 (@liamdawson)

v0.5.3

Added rgb-float as a new format (e.g. pastel random | pastel format rgb-float).
pastel pick should now work in 24-bit on Windows, see #45
Fix crash for pastel distinct N with N < 2 (show an error message), see #69

v0.5.2

Truecolor support for Windows (@lzybkr)
Re-arranging of colors in pastel distinct so as to maximize the minimal distance to the predecessors
Fixed small numerical approximation problem in the 'similar colors' computation
Backported to Rust 1.34

v0.5.1

Added shell completion files for bash, zsh, fish and PowerShell.

v0.5.0

Added pastel distinct N command to generate a set of N visually distinct colors

v0.4.0

Initial public release