A Sublime Text plugin that displays colored icons in the gutter for lines containing color codes.
Gutter Color is a Sublime Text plugin that displays colored icons in the editor gutter next to lines containing color codes. It helps developers quickly visualize colors in their code, improving readability and workflow efficiency when working with CSS, HTML, or other color-rich files.
Frontend developers, designers, and anyone using Sublime Text who frequently works with color values in code, particularly in CSS, HTML, or preprocessor files.
Developers choose Gutter Color for its seamless integration with Sublime Text, accurate color representation, and customizable features like transparency handling and custom color format support, all without disrupting their existing workflow.
A Sublime Text 3 plugin which displays a colour in the gutter if the line contains a colour.
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Includes a built-in tool to fix Sublime Text's icon tinting via 'fix_color_schemes', ensuring colors display correctly even with light color schemes, as detailed in the 'Icon Tinting and Light Color Schemes' section.
Allows configuration of which filetypes trigger color detection through the 'supported_syntax' setting, making it adaptable to various coding workflows without unnecessary overhead.
Offers an option to display alpha channels with checkered backgrounds using 'use_transparency', improving visualization of RGBA and HSLA colors directly in the gutter.
Supports adding custom color string formats via the 'custom_colors' setting, enabling detection of non-standard color codes based on regex patterns from the default settings.
Relies on ImageMagick for icon generation, requiring manual installation and path configuration ('convert_path'), which can be error-prone and complex, as highlighted in the troubleshooting section.
Lacks support for SASS/LESS variables and CSS gradients, as admitted in the TODO list, limiting its usefulness in modern frontend development environments.
May conflict with other gutter plugins like GitGutter, as noted in the TODO, requiring users to manually resolve issues or adjust settings.