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HSL / HSLA color value

Hi there,

I usually use hsl color in CSS.
Thanks to awesome Design Spec, It's piece of cake to get the hsl value.

But the problem is the way to reflect the changes to XD files.

Let me tell you a story.

A designer publish Design Spec, which use RGB(240, 156, 30) as their site's brand color.
Then, a coder get the color as hsla(36, 87%, 52%, 1) and make a mockup.
Then, members review it and the product owner say,

"The brand color seems less attractive than I expected..."

Awful, why he didn't point out it before, at least when he reviewed XD prototype? But this kind of things are very familiar for us.
Then, the coder start to adjust it with inspector and say

"Okay how about this one? I made it lighter."

"Awesome! This is it!"

So, they change their brand color from hsla(36, 87%, 52%, 1) to hsla(36, 87%, 62%, 1) and designer update the XD documents.
But who convert hsla to rgba?
This kind of problem make us bothered and easily break the color consistency, further more the site consistency.

That's why I wanna directly set the hsl value in XD.

Best.

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  • Clayton commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Adding this would make my life so much easier. If XD added HSL along with a way to easily copy the colors to the clipboard, then it would basically go from great to perfect.

  • Lucelia Foote commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Why is HSL not already implemented? This is a UI design tool, and web is a huge part of that. Web uses HSL.

  • James commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    100% necessary - HSB is an outdated colour form, so much so that even since 1997 there have been calls to abandon it!
    (see: http://poynton.ca/notes/colour_and_gamma/ColorFAQ.html#RTFToC36)

    Please add this, I'm in the same boat as Stacey Lane in having to switch to a browser to pick new colours, which is extremely frustrating when XD has a colour list right there in the app.

  • Stacey Lane commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The HSL color model is more similar to color mixing in the real world and more accurately reflects what is happening with the color. Please include this. As a designer, it's incredibly frustrating to have to do the bulk of my work in the browser when considering new colors. Adding HSL to XD would improve my process and workflow - it would also put XD ahead of the competition as no other visual editors have HSL color.

  • Cyril commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hell yeah! Why is HSL still not supported? It's really important for web design. Please add it quickly.

  • Naazira commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I pick colours in HSL too. I also have a guide and formula for non-designers to pick colors, with or without code, in HSL that is dynamic but is consistent with our design system.

    I don't use HSB values because we can't define HSB values on the web... We can only code hsla in css.

    Plus HSB and HSL is different. It's noticeably different in the brighter and lighter scales which violates our brand colour guidelines.

    And it takes too much time to repeatedly convert HSL colours to RGB in XD... :(

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