Type Nomenclature

Type nomenclature

type	values
<boolean>	on, off, yes, no, true, false, 1, 0, toggle
<argb_hex>	Color as an 8 digit hex with alpha, red, green and blue channels
<path>	An absolute file path
<string>	Any UTF-8 string or symbol
<float>	A floating point number
<integer>	An integer
<positive_integer>	A positive integer
<positive_integer list>	A comma separated list of positive integers

Further <boolean> operations

All <boolean> properties can be negated with an exclamation mark, e.g. !on.

Further <argb_hex> operations

All colors (i.e. all fields where the value type is <argb_hex>) can additionally be accessed to change specific channels like this:

<color_property>	<value>	default	description
alpha	<float>	1.0	The alpha channel of the color (0 to 1)
red	<float>	1.0	The red channel of the color (0 to 1)
green	<float>	1.0	The green channel of the color (0 to 1)
blue	<float>	1.0	The blue channel of the color (0 to 1)

So for example, if I want to only change the alpha channel of the bars color I would use

sketchybar --bar color.alpha=0.5