The before and after on my CSS landscape piece after switching to HSL values was just ridiculous

I spent 3 months tweaking RGB numbers for a sunset gradient and could never get the oranges right, then I tried HSL and had the colors dialed in under 20 minutes, has anyone else had that kind of shift in their workflow?

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betty_shah12d ago

my buddy tom was exactly the same, he spent like two weeks trying to nail a coral pink for a client project and kept getting something that looked like Pepto Bismol. finally I showed him HSL and he said it was like a lightbulb went off, now he won't touch RGB for colors anymore. did you find it fixed other color issues for you too, like shadows or highlights?

taylor_moore12d ago

@betty_shah exactly this, I was the same way. I used to think RGB was the "real" way to do colors (you know, because it's what the screen actually uses) but man was I wrong. It took me ages to get a decent sky blue gradient for a weather app background, kept getting this weird greenish tint instead. First time I used HSL for a shadow overlay I legitimately felt dumb for not switching sooner. The lightness slider is basically cheating for darkening things without wrecking the hue.