color_tools.exporters.gpl_exporter

GIMP Palette (.gpl) exporter.

Exports colors to the GIMP Palette text format used by GIMP, Inkscape, Krita, MyPaint, and other graphics applications.

Format:

GIMP Palette Name: palette_name Columns: 0 # R G B Color Name 255 127 80 Coral

GPL stores 8-bit sRGB values and optional human-readable color names.

Palette-aware export preserves the palette name and preferred column count using native GPL header fields. Additional descriptive metadata may be retained as comments.

class color_tools.exporters.gpl_exporter.GPLExporter

Bases: PaletteExporter

Export color palettes in GIMP Palette (.gpl) format.

GPL is a plain-text RGB palette format supported by a broad range of graphics applications.

Palette and color names are sanitized to prevent embedded line breaks from corrupting the file structure.

Palette-aware export preserves:

• name

• columns

Author, description, and tags are written as GPL comments when present.

property metadata: ExporterMetadata

Return metadata describing the GPL exporter.