We thought our color options could use another friend! We now support HSL in our color picker!
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Short answer: convenience. Long answer: just like shading in real life, darker or lighter colors don't exactly maintain the same hue, so being able to have a somewhat natural result in the LAB color space makes for a coloring process that is more convenient&fun. Also, I'm lazy

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Thanks!!!
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The L component in HSL is meant to describe the colors that your display can reproduce. Are the lights on your display turned up to the max? Are they turned all the way off? What it does not describe is how we perceive the lightness of the resulting color.
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As many designers are taught, colors of some hues are inherently brighter than others. In HSL, L @ 100% for yellow is going to be much brighter than L @ 100% for blue. Consequently HSL generally fails for many things like readability, color transitions, and graidents.
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