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> Shade means to add black to a color and deepen it in value This is really useful bit of information to keep in mind when working with colors - darkening a co
by huhtenberg 16y ago
> Shade means to add black to a color and deepen it in value
This is really useful bit of information to keep in mind when working with colors - darkening a color requires not only decreasing its L (lightness), but also increasing its saturation (S). Without that the color will loose their intensity and will appear more gray-ish. It took me over a year to arrive at this empirically, so designer wannabes do pay attention here :-)
- jacobolus 16y agoThis is likely an artifact of working in a color model which badly describes the relation between lightness and chroma or lightness and saturation. If you manipulated colors in a more reasonable color space (this is the fault of tool designers, not users) then you wouldn’t have to spend extra steps of indirection to change the (visually relevant) parameters you care about. (Edit: and to be clear, my frustration is completely directed at all the software that uses HSL, not at its users.)
- huhtenberg 16y agoYep, I agree. However the conventional HSL model found in pretty much all graphic software has the problem I described.