{"id":354922,"date":"2021-10-28T13:20:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T20:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/?p=354922"},"modified":"2021-10-28T13:20:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T20:20:10","slug":"okhsv-and-okhsl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/okhsv-and-okhsl\/","title":{"rendered":"Okhsv and Okhsl"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There is an old Russian fable where Okhsv and Okhsl are on a rowboat and Okhsv says to Okhsl, “What are the known shortcomings of HSL and HSV color pickers in design applications?”<\/em> I kid, I kid. But really, what are they?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Bj\u00f6rn Ottosson shows the two classics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Despite color picking playing a big role in a lot of applications, the design of color pickers isn\u2019t a particularly well researched topic. While some variation exist in the widgets themselves, the choice of HSL or HSV is mostly taken for granted, with only a few exceptions.<\/p>

Is their dominance well deserved or would it be possible to create better alternatives?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It’s all rather above my head, but I certainly support the idea of researching and exploring things that so many of us just take for granted. There is a whole playground<\/a> comparing different possibilities. It’s not so much about the UI\/UX of the picker itself, but how the range of colors is expressed in the picker area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is an old Russian fable where Okhsv and Okhsl are on a rowboat and Okhsv says to Okhsl, “What are the known shortcomings of HSL and HSV color pickers in design applications?” I kid, I kid. But really, what are they?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":281223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"sig_custom_text":"","sig_image_type":"featured-image","sig_custom_image":0,"sig_is_disabled":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"c2c_always_allow_admin_comments":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[17],"tags":[18995],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/css-tricks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/color-palette.png?fit=1200%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"featured_media_src_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/css-tricks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/color-palette.png?fit=1024%2C512&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355042,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354922\/revisions\/355042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}