Color Converter
Convert color formats between HEX, RGB, HSL, HSV, CMYK, and Pantone with visual colour picker and CSS output ready to paste.
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About Color Converter
One Color, Five Formats - Converted Instantly
Designers live in a world of color codes. Your design tool gives you a HEX value. Your CSS needs RGB. The print shop wants CMYK. Your data visualization library expects HSL. And somewhere in the process, someone asks for the HSV value. The color converter translates between all of these formats instantly, so you never have to Google "HEX to RGB" again at 2am during a deadline.
The Formats and When You Need Them
HEX is the web's lingua franca for color. Six characters preceded by a hash - #FF6B35, #2D3436, #00B894. Every web developer types these instinctively. They're compact, easy to copy-paste, and universally supported in CSS. But HEX codes aren't human-readable - looking at #7C3AED doesn't immediately tell you it's a vibrant purple unless you've memorised the color wheel in hexadecimal.
RGB breaks color into its Red, Green, and Blue components, each ranging from 0 to 255. rgb(124, 58, 237) is the same purple as #7C3AED but easier to read and adjust. Need a slightly more red version? Bump the first number up. CSS functions like rgba() add an alpha channel for transparency, making RGB the format of choice for dynamic color manipulation in code.
HSL - Hue, Saturation, Lightness - is arguably the most intuitive format for humans. Hue is the color wheel position (0-360 degrees), saturation is how vivid the color is (0-100%), and lightness is how bright or dark (0-100%). Want a darker version of the same color? Just decrease lightness. Want a muted version? Lower saturation. HSL makes color relationships obvious in a way that HEX and RGB never will.
HSV (Hue, Saturation, Value) is similar to HSL but defines brightness differently. Value at 100% is the purest version of the color, while lightness at 100% in HSL is always white. HSV is what most color pickers in design software actually use internally, which is why you'll encounter it in Photoshop, GIMP, and similar tools.
CMYK - Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Key (Black) - is the print color model. Screens add light (additive color), printers subtract it (subtractive color). A color that looks perfect on your monitor might print differently because the RGB gamut and CMYK gamut don't overlap perfectly. If you're designing anything that will be printed - business cards, flyers, banners, packaging - you need the CMYK values. This color converter gives them to you without requiring print design software.
The Color Picker Makes It Visual
Sometimes you don't start with a code at all. You have a color in mind - or on screen - and you need to find its code. The built-in color picker lets you select any color visually and immediately see its value in all five formats. Pick a shade you like, copy the format you need, and move on. No more approximating HEX codes by trial and error in your CSS file.
Real Workflow Uses
Frontend developers converting between HEX and RGB is the most common use case, but this color converter handles much more nuanced situations. Brand guidelines often specify colors in one format while your implementation needs another. A design system might define brand purple as #7C3AED in the style guide, but your CSS custom properties use HSL for easier theme manipulation, and your email template needs RGB because some email clients choke on HSL values.
Print designers receiving brand colors in HEX from a web-first company need CMYK equivalents for press-ready files. Developers building data visualizations need to generate color scales programmatically, and HSL is perfect for that - increment the hue by fixed degrees and you get evenly spaced colors around the wheel.
Accessibility checks often require specific formats too. WCAG contrast ratio calculations work with relative luminance values derived from RGB. If you're checking whether your text color has sufficient contrast against your background, you need the RGB values of both to compute the ratio accurately.
This color converter handles the translation between all these formats with zero friction. Paste in any supported format, get all the others back instantly, use the color picker when you need to start from scratch. It's a small tool that removes a constant micro-friction from design and development work.