str2col

Deterministically map any value to a color.

from str2col import Str2Col, str2col

# one-off
str2col("hello")              # "#41eaa0"
str2col("hello", fmt="rgb")   # (65, 234, 160)

# reusable converter with constraints
conv = Str2Col(seed="myapp", hue_range=(180, 300), sat_range=(0.5, 0.8))
conv.to_hex("label A")        # "#..."
conv.to_rgb("label A")        # (R, G, B)
conv.to_hsl("label A")        # (hue, sat, light)
conv.to_ansi_fg("label A")    # "\033[38;2;...m"
conv.to_ansi_bg("label A")    # "\033[48;2;...m"

Supported types: strings, ints, floats, None.

Install

pip install str2col

CLI

str2col hello
str2col hello --format rgb
str2col hello --format ansi_fg --text "hello world"
echo "hello" | str2col

Options:

Flag	Default	Description
--format / -f	hex	hex, rgb, rgb_float, hsl, ansi_fg, ansi_bg
--seed	none	shift the color mapping
--hue-range MIN MAX	0 360	restrict hue (degrees)
--sat-range MIN MAX	0.4 0.9	restrict saturation
--light-range MIN MAX	0.35 0.65	restrict lightness
--text TEXT	none	print TEXT in the computed color

How it works

The input is coerced to a string and hashed with MD5. Three independent 4-byte chunks of the digest are mapped into the configured HSL ranges, then converted to the requested output format via Python's colorsys module.