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HSL is bad for this use case that's why we use HSV. The swatches at the bottom of this Wikipedia article show the difference. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HS

by tacos 11y ago

HSL is bad for this use case that's why we use HSV. The swatches at the bottom of this Wikipedia article show the difference. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSL_and_HSV https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSL_and_HSV CIE* gets you more comparative, perceptive uniformity however when picking a color that's almost exactly what you don't care about. Author would benefit from an art class and/or two hours reading the mind-numbing tech documentation around color theory.

duopixel 11y ago
HUSL brings the perceptual uniformity of CIELab with the intuitiveness of HSL. Author has done something awesome with a solid theoretical foundation. I have used HUSL to generate pleasant color palettes in http://bezier.method.ac http://bezier.method.ac
- tacos 11y ago
  I'm an artist and musician and generally horrified by the amateurish algorithmic noodling in both spaces. When you pick a color you're picking it relative to one already on screen -- or something in your mind's eye. This color picker does not help solve either problem. If you look at the paint chips in the store -- or the Pantone books -- you'll see they're organized a certain way. Often you pick the color and then you tweak the saturation and brightness. I do it all day every day. Even the dorkky CSS pre-processors have features for tweaking saturation and lightness. It's what artists do. This tool makes a mess of saturation in particular. Meanwhile nobody's demanding to do Delta-E crossfades on #ffffcc vs #ffccff in SASS. Hmm. I wonder why. Color picking is often handled by swatches and fanning out real-world books of similar tones. Fiddling with a computer is great, and if you think it's important that your screensaver randomly pick cool colors -- hey, if this helps you, go for it. You're likely far better off limiting the color cube a different way. Perhaps by popularity, or culture, or by simply typing in a couple dozen colors that don't look like shit and calling it done.
TazeTSchnitzel 11y ago
HSV and HSL are both pretty bad because they're very simple mappings to RGB.

by tacos 11y ago

duopixel 11y ago

HUSL brings the perceptual uniformity of CIELab with the intuitiveness of HSL. Author has done something awesome with a solid theoretical foundation. I have used HUSL to generate pleasant color palettes in http://bezier.method.ac http://bezier.method.ac

tacos 11y ago
I'm an artist and musician and generally horrified by the amateurish algorithmic noodling in both spaces. When you pick a color you're picking it relative to one already on screen -- or something in your mind's eye. This color picker does not help solve either problem. If you look at the paint chips in the store -- or the Pantone books -- you'll see they're organized a certain way. Often you pick the color and then you tweak the saturation and brightness. I do it all day every day. Even the dorkky CSS pre-processors have features for tweaking saturation and lightness. It's what artists do. This tool makes a mess of saturation in particular. Meanwhile nobody's demanding to do Delta-E crossfades on #ffffcc vs #ffccff in SASS. Hmm. I wonder why. Color picking is often handled by swatches and fanning out real-world books of similar tones. Fiddling with a computer is great, and if you think it's important that your screensaver randomly pick cool colors -- hey, if this helps you, go for it. You're likely far better off limiting the color cube a different way. Perhaps by popularity, or culture, or by simply typing in a couple dozen colors that don't look like shit and calling it done.

TazeTSchnitzel 11y ago

HSV and HSL are both pretty bad because they're very simple mappings to RGB.