protected function imageColor($image, string $css_color): int
    {
        return imagecolorallocate(
            $image,
            (int) hexdec(substr($css_color, 0, 2)),
            (int) hexdec(substr($css_color, 2, 2)),
            (int) hexdec(substr($css_color, 4, 2))
        );
    }