Support SwatchBooker palettes as output format

[supertobi]

As a Gimp developer is currently working on SwatchBooker palettes support, I would be happy if you would support them as well:
https://twitter.com/CmykStudent/status/1626806356022898692?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1626806356022898692%7Ctwgr%5Ef2e8da881874fbb05c2f818a7869c56693493529%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ffeedly.com%2Fi%2Flatest

[S1SYPHOS]

Hey there,
thanks for suggesting this! Not sure about your request though, do you mean the colors stated under

Gets online color swatches from:

.. ?

Please tell me which colors you would like to see implemented! 🙂

[supertobi]

Sorry that was unclear. I was thinking about the SwatchBooker file format (.sbz) as an export format additional to the .gpl VG format.

[S1SYPHOS]

Aaahhh right, would you mind explaining what it's for, in addition to the GIMP (gpl) format? What's the advantage supporting this palette format?

I'll look into it and let you know - but if I can manage to find some documentation or sample files, this shouldn't be a problem! 😉

Update: I found a sample inside the (deprecated) swatchbooker repository, it's basically some zipped XML, which is totally doable.

[supertobi]

What's the advantage supporting this palette format?

GPL files only support 8bit RGB values. Where, on the other hand, the SwatchBooker file format (.sbz) supports sRGB, RGB, HSV, HSL, CMY, CMYK, nCLR, YIQ, Lab and XYZ.

[S1SYPHOS]

Thanks for letting me know!

The colors currently being scraped and used by this library are using RGB and HEX color codes (which , again, boils down to RGB), so as of now, this doesn't matter much, does it? 🤔

[supertobi]

The main reason for for the GIMP team to support SBZ is because they are working on better CMYK support. But that is all planned for the releases post v3.0. So 8bit RGB is limited but a good start.

[S1SYPHOS]

As I said, this library scrapes colors from public sources that do not contain any information about CMYK colors! If a color palette offers CMYK values, I will consider SBZ support! 😁