Post #2626673

2026-01-28 06:10 UTC

@heatherhorns_lite@plush.city i dont actually do much of my own art. I did the poker suits for the bunny cards, and i color-picked from the xkcd list for those too! when i mix my own colors, i typically use a HSV slider. the colors of the rainbow are *about* 45 degrees apart on the hue slider, so i get an approximate sense of what i'm working with.

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@ka_so@mastodon.octofriends.garden 2026-01-29 05:53

@nycki@bark.lgbt @heatherhorns_lite@plush.city HSV is a reasonable go to, but if your tooling supports OKLCH, I'd suggest trying that. It's kinda like HSV, but it approaches certain tradeoffs differently. Instead of saturation and value, it used lightness and chroma. Lightness spans from 0 (darkest possible black) to 1 (brightest possible white). Chroma is how much color it has; at 0 chroma, the hue is irrelevant. The upper bound of chroma depends on both the hue and lightness. A visualizer for OKLCH would look kinda like the HSV visualizer, with a hue ring, but inside the hue ring you'd have irregular looking triangles that the shape depends on the hue. Basically, the color picker might feel less intuitive, but modifying colors has more predictable results OKHCL isn't supported well by digital art programs just yet, but its supported well on the web, with every major currently supported browser engine allowing its use in CSS and in-line styles

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