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Writing a book about the history of keyboards: http://aresluna.org/shift-happens  · Design manager @figmadesign · Typographer · Occasional speaker · He/him

San Francisco, Calif.
Joined October 2009

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    1. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 16 Jan 2019
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      Can you tell me what makes it better for those than RGB or HSL?

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    2. Michael Mullins‏ @webdesserts 17 Jan 2019
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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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    3. Michael Mullins‏ @webdesserts 17 Jan 2019
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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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    4. Michael Mullins‏ @webdesserts 17 Jan 2019
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      Color spaces like CIELuv & CIELab try to base their "Lightness" component on "percieved" lightness rather than a display's capabilities. With these color spaces, you can swap a green of L:30 and a blue of L:30 and almost guarantee that text will remain equally legible on top.

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    5. Michael Mullins‏ @webdesserts 17 Jan 2019
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      That said, CIELuv & CIELab are infamously unusable because their values aren't clamped to a perfect square or cylinder like RGB & HSL. This means that you can rely on a clean 0-100% Lightness. For example a yellow at L:10 does not exist in reality, so it would return an error.

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    6. Michael Mullins‏ @webdesserts 17 Jan 2019
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      LCHab & LCHuv help with this a little as it brings the colors closer to the HSL Color Space that we're familiar with. But it still lacks a clean range of values. Even still, these color spaces are a great way to design color systems once you understand them.

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    7. Michael Mullins‏ @webdesserts 17 Jan 2019
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      HSLuv is a fairly new addition that sacrifices some of the accuracy of CIELuv for the usability of those clean 0-100 ranges that we're used to with HSL: http://www.hsluv.org/comparison/ 

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    8. Michael Mullins‏ @webdesserts 17 Jan 2019
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      In HSLuv saturation across hues is inconstant, but lightness across hues is. For me, when designing a color palette, this is fine as saturation is generally my last concern: L: will this text be legible on this background? H: what does this color "mean"? S: primarily branding

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    9. Michael Mullins‏ @webdesserts 17 Jan 2019
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      Anyway, sorry for the tweetstorm. For more reading on the problems of RGB & HSL, and why HSLuv was created, feel free to read on the topic from the creator here: http://www.boronine.com/2012/03/26/Color-Spaces-for-Human-Beings/ …

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    10. Michael Mullins‏ @webdesserts 17 Jan 2019
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      Now than I think about it @jlfwong works for y'all so I'm probably wasting my breath here lol. Well at least take the above as my thoughts on these colors spaces and why I use them.

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      Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 17 Jan 2019
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      No, this is super useful!

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