Adobe® Swatch Exchange (ASE) is a file format created by Adobe® that allows users to easily share swatches. It is supported by many of the tools in the Adobe Creative Suite®.

Users with accounts on http://kuler.adobe.com/ can also download swatches in the ASE format.

This repository provides three things:

1. a data type and Binary instance for parsing and generating ASE files

2. a function for generating CSS from an ASE data type

3. an executable 'ase2css' which parses a .ase file and generates a .css file

For each ColorEntry found in the .ase file, a pair of CSS rules are generated which look a bit like:

/* Generated from "6 pm.ase" using ase2css */
*.fg-color-ase-1 {
    color : #5c6c59 }

*.bg-color-ase-1 {
    background-color : #5c6c59 }

the suffix -n is assigned in the order the colors appeared in the .ase file.

The .ASE format supports 4 color modes, RGB, CYMK, LAB, and Gray. The Binary instance supports all four modes, but the ase2css conversion function only supports RGB at this time.

This application is written in Haskell. If you are a Haskell user this is great news! If you do not already have Haskell installed, it will be a bit of a chore to install and build this package. Sorry there are no binaries available!

If you want to try to build this package you will need to:

1. install the Haskell Platform package available from http://www.haskell.org/platform/

2. run `cabal update`

3. run `cabal install ase2css`