Option for more compact display of multiple colors. about pastel HOT 3 OPEN

Ah, I just noticed the script you demonstrated in #139, pastel paint looks like a nice solution.

for COLOR in $(jq -r 'values[]' 1.json); do pastel paint $(pastel textcolor $COLOR) --on $COLOR "$COLOR          "; done

Although it would be handy and ergonomic to have something like that built in, so as not to have to remember where I saved the script.

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Thank you for reporting this. I agree that this would be useful.

A related feature would be #21. Would that also work for your use case?

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Partially, but #21 that still seems like its for comparing only two colors at once pairwise, rather than many. Consider the following example:

> cat 1.json
{
   "Razzmic Berry":"8a4f7d",
   "Rocket Metallic":"887880",
   "Rocket Metallic 2":"887f84",
   "Taupe Gray":"888587",
   "Battleship Grey":"888c8b",
   "Morning Blue":"88938f",
   "Morning Blue 2":"889992",
   "Morning Blue 3":"88a096",
   "Khaki Web":"bbab8b",
   "Salmon":"ef8275"
}
> jq -r 'values[]' 1.json|pastel color

The second command results in about a screen and a half of output. Whereas it would be nice to be able to compare them all at once without scrolling, perhaps as vertical stripes.

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