Convert HEX to HSL
Convert a HEX color value to HSL and show the corresponding values in other common formats.
How to use it
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Type a HEX, RGB, HSL, HSV or CMYK color value.
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Inspect the converted result and equivalent color representations.
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Copy the needed notation into your design or stylesheet.
About this tool
This tool interprets the supplied color as an RGB-based display color, calculates the requested HSL representation, and shows all five supported formats. HEX stores integer RGB channel values; HSL and HSV describe perceptual hue and intensity; CMYK here is a mathematical approximation.
Channel values are rounded for readability, and CMYK results are not printer-profile conversions. Alpha transparency is not supported.
Practical questions
What does this tool change or return?
This tool interprets the supplied color as an RGB-based display color, calculates the requested HSL representation, and shows all five supported formats. HEX stores integer RGB channel values; HSL and HSV describe perceptual hue and intensity; CMYK here is a mathematical approximation.
What are its limitations?
Channel values are rounded for readability, and CMYK results are not printer-profile conversions. Alpha transparency is not supported.