https://www.rostrum.blog/tags/dehex/ Recent content in Dehex on rostrum.blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Fri, 27 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/08/27/dehex-app/ Fri, 27 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/08/27/dehex-app/ Use the {dehex} app to generate a random hex code and learn how to interpret it by eye. tl;dr The {dehex} package now contains a Shiny app that you can use to walk through the process of reading a colour hex code, as per David DeSandro’s method. {dehex}cellent In the last post I introduced the R package {dehex}. Its purpose is to help me (you?) look at a colour hex code and be able to ‘read’ roughly what colour it is without resorting to a lookup. https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/08/10/dehex/ Tue, 10 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2021/08/10/dehex/ tl;dr I wrote an R package, {dehex}, that helps you learn to ‘read’ a hex colour code by eye according to David DeSandro’s method. Check out his mindblowing talk. Hue are you? Hex codes are used in computing to encode a colour as a succinct six-digit alphanumeric string, like #F4D82A. These codes are written in hexadecimal (hence ‘hex’): they can take the characters 0 to 9 and A to F, which encodes 16 possible values.