*! version 1.0.0 21MAR2016

Command to create new named color styles and add to existing color dataset.

help for brewcolors

brewcolors -- is a program used to create new named color
styles and/or add colors to the color dataset. The program includes sub-commands
to create these colors manually or to add colors from the
XKCD color survey.

Syntax

brewcolors xkcd|new [, make install
colors(string) replace override ]

Description

brewcolors builds a local database of named RGB colors on the
user's system. It also includes transformed RGB values for different forms of
color sight impairments.

Options

make is an optional argument used to append the resulting
color dataset to the master colordata set used by brewscheme.

install is an optional argument used to create each of the
named color style files and place them on the ADOPATH to be accessible in
Stata.

colors is an optional argument used to pass the color name
and RGB values when using the new subcommand.

replace is an optional argument used to overwrite an
existing version of the color dataset being created.

override is an optional argument used to suppress the warning
message printed to the console by brewcolordb.

Examples

Creates the dataset with all of the XKCD colors and installs them
as named color styles for Stata to use.

brewcolors xkcd, mk inst over rep

Author

William R. Buchanan, Ph.D.

Data Scientist

Minneapolis Public Schools

William.Buchanan at mpls [dot] k12 [dot] mn [dot] us