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Color Luminance
The Color Wheel
Color Space and Gamut




Multi Model Color Blender
Color Converter
HSL Color Schemer
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1-2-3 Image Resizer
Black & White Picture Converter
Sepia Tone Picture Converter
Gray Card


Color Converter - RGB to HEX and more

With this universal color converter you can convert RGB to HEX
and several other color models. There's a short description about each
color model below. The converter is also very useful to learn
more about colors and color models because you can compare how a certain color
is composed with different color models.
Color Models
RGB color
Consists of the components red, green and blue. It is the
base color model for the converter.
HEX color
This is the hexadecimal representation of the RGB decimal
values.
Luminance (relative)
The calculated relatvie luminance value for a certain color
in terms of RGB-gray.
HSB color
Consists of the components hue, saturation and brightness.
It's derived from the RGB color model. To better understand
this color model you can think of it as the HTS (hue, tint, shade)
model.
HSL color
Consists of the components hue, saturation and lightness.
It's derived from the RGB color model. The HSL model is said
to represent the most natural way of how we think about color.
CMYK color
Consists of the components cyan, magenta, yellow and black (key).
It is the standard color model for printing.
These values are by no means suitable for practical use! A very
simple formula is used for the conversion calculating the
inverses of the RGB values and applying a simplistic Gray Component
Replacement logic. It shows that a color management setup is
required for a good quality conversion and that it is important
to understand the difference between relative and absolute
color spaces.
CIE L*a*b* or CIELAB
Consists of the components luma, green/red and blue/yellow.
If you pass a certain threshold in positive or negative direction for
a* or b* values you are navigating out of sRGB color space gamut and
therefore RGB values do not change anymore.
winHSL240
Consists of the components hue, saturation and lightness.
This is a Windows ™ OS internal color model e.g. used in Paint
and Wordpad. The components have a range of 0-239, 0-240 and
0-240.
winHSL255
Consists of the components hue, saturation and lightness.
This is the color model used in Microsoft ® Office programs.
The components have a range of 0-254, 0-255 and 0-255.
pHSL color
Consists of the components hue, saturation and lightness.
This is the inhouse developed Painter's HSL color model covering a subset
of HSL with the intention to potentially select more aesthetically
appealing colors.
Web color
Shows the web color closest to the currently active color by finding
the smallest distance of RGB values.
Web safe color
Shows the web safe color closest to the currently active color by finding
the smallest distance of RGB values.

