Generate CSS function-strings in a given format

[mirisuzanne]

Sass handles default output, optimizing for both browser-support and minification where possible. I don't see any reason to change that, or add a global setting to change output type. But it would be great to provide access to strings with an explicit syntax.

$output: (
  blend.string($color, 'lch'),
  blend.string($color, 'lab'),
  blend.string($color, 'display-p3'),
  ...,
);

[alolalo]

Forgive me if I'm totally missing the point here and mistake this for being about "how to name things", but the way I read your question is "how to name the functions of function-strings"

I like to devide color mixing into the same three simple structures that are used in 3d-modellingl; additive, subtractive and formative modelling. In this case it would be additive blending, subtractive blending and formative blending of colors as an abstraction & subdevision of function classes.

//DesignerPseudoCode (DPC)

$output: ( blend.addColor($color, 'lch'), blend.subColor($color, 'lch'), blend.formColor($color, 'lch'), blend.testColor($color, 'lch'), ..., );

[mirisuzanne]

This issue isn't about color-mixing, or naming functions, but about generating CSS output in various formats (strings are the way we can do that). So blend.string($color, 'lch') would output a color in css-ready LCH format: lch(<deg> <%> <%>).

[mirisuzanne]

(blend is just the name of the tool/package/sass module)