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pygame.Color

pygame object for color representations
`pygame.Color(name): Return Color`
`pygame.Color(r, g, b, a): Return Color`
`pygame.Color(rgbvalue): Return Color`

Color.r - Gets or sets the red value of the Color. | Gets or sets the red value of the Color.
Color.g - Gets or sets the green value of the Color. | Gets or sets the green value of the Color.
Color.b - Gets or sets the blue value of the Color. | Gets or sets the blue value of the Color.
Color.a - Gets or sets the alpha value of the Color. | Gets or sets the alpha value of the Color.
Color.cmy - Gets or sets the CMY representation of the Color. | Gets or sets the CMY representation of the Color.
Color.hsva - Gets or sets the HSVA representation of the Color. | Gets or sets the HSVA representation of the Color.
Color.hsla - Gets or sets the HSLA representation of the Color. | Gets or sets the HSLA representation of the Color.
Color.i1i2i3 - Gets or sets the I1I2I3 representation of the Color. | Gets or sets the I1I2I3 representation of the Color.
Color.normalize - Returns the normalized RGBA values of the Color. | Returns the normalized RGBA values of the Color.
Color.correct_gamma - Applies a certain gamma value to the Color. | Applies a certain gamma value to the Color.
Color.set_length - Set the number of elements in the Color to 1,2,3, or 4. | Set the number of elements in the Color to 1,2,3, or 4.

The Color class represents `RGBA` color values using a value range of 0-255. It allows basic arithmetic operations to create new colors, supports conversions to other color spaces such as `HSV` or `HSL` and lets you adjust single color channels. Alpha defaults to 255 when not given.

'rgbvalue' can be either a color name, an `HTML` color format string, a hex number string, or an integer pixel value. The `HTML` format is '#rrggbbaa', where rr, gg, bb, and aa are 2 digit hex numbers. The alpha aa is optional. `A` hex number string has the form '0xrrggbbaa', where aa is optional.

Color objects support equality comparison with other color objects and 3 or 4 element tuples of integers (New in `1.9.0)`. There was a bug in pygame `1.8.1` where the default alpha was 0, not 255 like previously.

New implementation of Color was done in pygame `1.8.1`.

Color.r

Gets or sets the red value of the Color.
`Color.r: Return int`

The red value of the Color.

Color.g

Gets or sets the green value of the Color.
`Color.g: Return int`

The green value of the Color.

Color.b

Gets or sets the blue value of the Color.
`Color.b: Return int`

The blue value of the Color.

Color.a

Gets or sets the alpha value of the Color.
`Color.a: Return int`

The alpha value of the Color.

Color.cmy

Gets or sets the CMY representation of the Color.
`Color.cmy: Return tuple`

The `CMY` representation of the Color. The `CMY` components are in the ranges `C` = [0, 1], `M` = [0, 1], `Y` = [0, 1]. Note that this will not return the absolutely exact `CMY` values for the set `RGB` values in all cases. Due to the `RGB` mapping from 0-255 and the `CMY` mapping from 0-1 rounding errors may cause the `CMY` values to differ slightly from what you might expect.

Color.hsva

Gets or sets the HSVA representation of the Color.
`Color.hsva: Return tuple`

The `HSVA` representation of the Color. The `HSVA` components are in the ranges `H` = [0, 360], `S` = [0, 100], `V` = [0, 100], `A` = [0, 100]. Note that this will not return the absolutely exact `HSV` values for the set `RGB` values in all cases. Due to the `RGB` mapping from 0-255 and the `HSV` mapping from 0-100 and 0-360 rounding errors may cause the `HSV` values to differ slightly from what you might expect.

Color.hsla

Gets or sets the HSLA representation of the Color.
`Color.hsla: Return tuple`

The `HSLA` representation of the Color. The `HSLA` components are in the ranges `H` = [0, 360], `S` = [0, 100], `V` = [0, 100], `A` = [0, 100]. Note that this will not return the absolutely exact `HSL` values for the set `RGB` values in all cases. Due to the `RGB` mapping from 0-255 and the `HSL` mapping from 0-100 and 0-360 rounding errors may cause the `HSL` values to differ slightly from what you might expect.

Color.i1i2i3

Gets or sets the I1I2I3 representation of the Color.
`Color.i1i2i3: Return tuple`

The `I1I2I3` representation of the Color. The `I1I2I3` components are in the ranges `I1` = [0, 1], `I2` = `[-0.5`, `0.5]`, `I3` = `[-0.5`, `0.5]`. Note that this will not return the absolutely exact `I1I2I3` values for the set `RGB` values in all cases. Due to the `RGB` mapping from 0-255 and the `I1I2I3` mapping from 0-1 rounding errors may cause the `I1I2I3` values to differ slightly from what you might expect.

Color.normalize

Returns the normalized RGBA values of the Color.
`Color.normalize(): Return tuple`

Returns the normalized `RGBA` values of the Color as floating point values.

Color.correct_gamma

Applies a certain gamma value to the Color.
`Color.correct_gamma (gamma): Return Color`

Applies a certain gamma value to the Color and returns a new Color with the adjusted `RGBA` values.

Color.set_length

Set the number of elements in the Color to 1,2,3, or 4.
`Color.set_length(len)`

The default Color length is 4. Colors can have lengths 1,2,3 or 4. This is useful if you want to unpack to r,g,b and not r,g,b,a. If you want to get the length of a Color do len(acolor).

New in pygame `1.9.0`.