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primal/color
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Collection of classes for converting and manipulating colors

1.0.2(2y ago)24506.7k↓25.4%44MITPHPPHP >=5.3.3

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Primal.Color
============

[](#primalcolor)

Created and Copyright 2012 by Jocelyn Badgley, chiper at chipersoft dot com.

Primal.Color is a standalone micro-library to assist in the parsing, converting and manipulation of colors across various formats.

Currently Primal.Color supports converting between the following formats:

- RGB (Hex3, Hex6 and css `rgb()`)
- HSV
- HSL
- CMYK

Primal.Color also includes a basic color wheel class for generating collections of colors across a spectrum.

[Primal](http://www.primalphp.com) is a collection of independent micro-libraries that collectively form a [LAMP](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAMP_(software_bundle)) development framework, but is not required to use Primal.Color in your own projects.

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- PHP 5.3 or later

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

*coming soon*

Legal
-----

[](#legal)

Primal is released under an MIT license. No attribution is required and you are expected to make alterations. For details see the enclosed LICENSE file.

###  Health Score

40

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FairBetter than 88% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity46

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community24

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity60

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 73% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~1377 days

Total

3

Last Release

1066d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/31834882?v=4)[ChiperSoft](/maintainers/ChiperSoft)[@ChiperSoft](https://github.com/ChiperSoft)

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Top Contributors

[![Twipped](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/231157?v=4)](https://github.com/Twipped "Twipped (27 commits)")[![clslrns](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/809446?v=4)](https://github.com/clslrns "clslrns (3 commits)")[![robbertkl](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5704510?v=4)](https://github.com/robbertkl "robbertkl (2 commits)")[![buggedcom](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2810?v=4)](https://github.com/buggedcom "buggedcom (1 commits)")[![Stubbs](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/43525?v=4)](https://github.com/Stubbs "Stubbs (1 commits)")[![mlocati](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/928116?v=4)](https://github.com/mlocati "mlocati (1 commits)")[![kitbs](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4569320?v=4)](https://github.com/kitbs "kitbs (1 commits)")[![mkly](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/965353?v=4)](https://github.com/mkly "mkly (1 commits)")

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