Comment by tptacek
2 days ago
My other question here is, are "R", "G", and "B" channels the best way to reason about color? Isn't HSV more intuitive?
2 days ago
My other question here is, are "R", "G", and "B" channels the best way to reason about color? Isn't HSV more intuitive?
author here. for some people and use cases, hsv is better. i encourage you to try to make an equivalent format for that
Or HCL? Or LAB? Any of these are more intuitive than RGB.
What is hue zero? That’s green right? Because green is such a common color? Or maybe it’s blue.
All you're arguing is that it's easier to memorize primary and simple secondary colors in RGB. No question, it is. Once you've got one of those detent colors locked in, how do you vary it? What does it mean to bring up i% of the first channel, j% of the second, and k% of the third? That's the problem HSV solves.
It's the first color of the rainbow: Red