Color Converter (HEX, RGB, HSL)

Understanding different color formats is essential for web design and development. This tool helps you seamlessly translate between the three most common formats used on the web, providing a live preview and multiple input methods. Whether you're a designer perfecting a color scheme or a developer implementing it in code, this converter streamlines the process. The real-time updates across all formats mean you can adjust a color in HSL and immediately see its corresponding HEX and RGB values.

The interactive color picker allows for visual selection, while the input fields for each format provide precision. The large color swatch gives you an immediate sense of the selected color, and the "Copy Formats" section makes it trivial to grab the exact code you need for your CSS, design software, or other application. Because this is a client-side tool, your color selections and conversions are completely private and instantaneous.

Color Formats Explained:

• HEX (Hexadecimal): A 6-digit code representing the Red, Green, and Blue (RGB) components of a color. Each pair of digits (from 00 to FF) represents the intensity of one of the three colors. It's the most common format in web development (e.g., in CSS) and is written with a leading `#`.
• RGB (Red, Green, Blue): Defines a color by the intensity of its red, green, and blue components, with each value ranging from 0 to 255. It's often used in design software and CSS (e.g., rgb(106, 62, 156)). It can also include an alpha (transparency) channel (RGBA).
• HSL (Hue, Saturation, Lightness): Represents colors in a more human-intuitive way. Hue is the color's position on the color wheel (0-360 degrees), Saturation is the color's intensity or purity (0-100%), and Lightness is its brightness (0-100%, where 0% is black and 100% is white). This format is particularly useful for creating color variations, like lighter or darker shades of a base color.