There is also a CIELCH colorspace that allow you to still work in the CIE colorspace but use familiar values of luminosity, chroma and hue. I created a library

There is also a CIELCH colorspace that allow you to still work in the CIE colorspace but use familiar values of luminosity, chroma and hue. I created a library for Processing/Java that allows the user to define colors in CIELCH space [1]. [1] https://github.com/neilpanchal/Chroma https://github.com/neilpanchal/Chroma