I have defined a color using:
\definecolor{canvascolor}{rgb}{0.643,0.690,0.843}
Then this is used with this command like canvascolor!75!white
from xcolor
. This is actually done in the beamer
theme wkbeamer
.
I know the mix of these two colors but how do I output the RGB color of this to match in a paint program. This I figure should be easy. I looked through the xcolor
manual and couldn't find how to do this. I also looked through to just see how it determines or algorithm it uses for the new RGB color from the mix but didn't see this. I didn't read the whole manual but from a quick look through I couldn't find the algorithm for this or tried outputting the color with a couple commands but none I could get working.
Best Answer
The
\extractcolorspec
macro will define a macro that contains the specification for a color; we can use it and the companion\convertcolorspec
to define a macro containing the specifications for another model:Now
\test
will expand toBBC4E1
.The first definition of
\test
will be{rgb}{0.73225,0.7675,0.88225}
so this is good for putting it after\convertcolorspec
, but we have to expand it first.Use two different macros if you also need to keep the first specification around.
We can implement this in a function
With
\getColorSpec{HTML}{canvascolor!75!white}
the specification will be stored in\getColorSpecTemp
; withthe same specification will be stored in
\HTMLcolor
.