Color Models: HSL

Created: Tuesday, June 18, 2019, posted by Geetesh at 4:42 pm

Updated: Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 10:23 am

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While computers can easily understand the fact that you mix red and green to end up with yellow, that’s some strange logic to us humans which we shall never comprehend!

How can we stay within the RGB color model, which computers understand, and mix colors more creatively to use a method which we humans can understand? This need for a more creative model gave birth to the HSL (Hue, Saturation, and Luminosity) color model.

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Color Models: HSL

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