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What is HUSL?

HUSL is a human-friendly alternative to the HSL color space. HSL was designed back in the 70s to be computationally cheap. It is a clever geometric transformation of the RGB color space and it does not take into account the complexities of human color vision.

There have long existed color spaces designed for perceptual uniformity. One of these color spaces is CIELUV (and its cylindrically shaped brother CIE LCh_uv. Like HSL, it defines hue and lightness, but instead of saturation it defines chroma. The problem with its chroma component is that it doesn't fit into a specific range. This makes it very hard to define colors programmatically. HUSL is a modified version of the CIE LCh_uv color space with a new saturation component.

Demo, documentation etc.

Versioning

This repo contains the canonical implementation of HUSL, its source code being HUSL's informal specification. Following semantic versioning, the major version must be incremented whenever the color math changes. These changes can be tested for with snapshot files.

Testing

Run npm install and npm test. Try cake snapshot to generate a JSON file of the entire gamut to be used for debugging and regression tests. The format of the file is as follows:

{
  "#000000": {
    rgb: [ 0, 0, 0 ],
    xyz: [ 0, 0, 0 ],
    luv: [ 0, 0, 0 ],
    lch: [ 0, 0, 0 ],
    husl: [ 0, 0, 0 ],
    huslp: [ 0, 0, 0 ]
  },
  ...
}

Ports

With the help of Robert McGinley, HUSL was also ported to Python (version 2 only).

A work-in-progress of C and Java ports is included in the repo, done by Lajos Ambrus. The Java port has some tests, added by @Pimm, but they are currently made to work with the Android SDK. It would be nice if someone made them more generic.

A Ruby port has been started by @soulcutter. I would love to see this done so that HUSL could be integrated into SASS.

License

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