Tools

Colour bench

Type or paste any colour into Original, then fine-tune it with the sliders and ramps.

Adjust drag, or arrow keys

OKLCH — perceptual, best for building scales

HSL — matches most design tools

CIE Lab — a is green/red, b is blue/yellow

Opacity

Conversions click a line to copy

Ramps click any step to load it

Lightness OKLCH L held at your chroma and hue, mapped into sRGB

Relative luminance WCAG Y of each step above, as a neutral grey

Chroma grey through to the sRGB limit at this lightness

Hue every 30°, lightness and chroma unchanged

Related hues complement, split, triad, square

Luminance and contrast

The bar pairs your colour with the neutral grey of identical relative luminance. If the two halves read as the same weight when you squint, the colour carries no extra lightness of its own — useful when you need a tint to sit at a fixed value.

Colour vision original left, now right

Around one man in twelve sees one of these. If a pair of colours has to stay distinguishable — a status light, a warning, a chart series — check it survives here.

Input formats

Paste anything: #4f8df5, 4f8df5, #4f8df580, rgb(79 141 245), hsl(218 90% 64%), hwb(218 31% 4%), hsv(218 68% 96%), lab(59 8 -51), lch(59 51 279), oklab(.65 -.02 -.14), oklch(65% .146 261), color(display-p3 .35 .55 .94), color(srgb .31 .55 .96), or a CSS name like rebeccapurple. Alpha after a slash works everywhere.