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		JKCalhoun on Sept 12, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New alternatives to HSL and HSV that better match ... And speaking subjectively, I have always preferred HSV because I came to color from the background of mixing pigments (painting). Adding white to a pigment to desaturate it (make it more pastel) is intuitive with paints ... as is adding black to darken a pigment. HSV (and Okhsv) more closely match my painterly intuition.

dasyatidprime on Sept 12, 2021 [–]

HSV and not HSL for that mental model? That's surprising to me—I thought the tint/shade system would lead to wanting to put max-chroma in the middle.

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