ChistStudioFrequently asked questions
What is the difference between RGB and HSL?
RGB describes a color as amounts of red, green and blue light. HSL describes the same space as hue, saturation and lightness — often more intuitive for adjusting a color's intensity or brightness.
What does the HEX color code represent?
A six-digit hexadecimal representation of an RGB color, two digits each for red, green and blue, prefixed with #. It's just a more compact way of writing the same RGB values.
Why would I use HSL instead of HEX in CSS?
HSL makes programmatic adjustments easier — raising lightness alone reliably lightens a color, whereas the same change in HEX or RGB requires recalculating all three channels.