🎨 Colortone Code Converter
Convert color metrics across HEX, RGB, HSL, CMYK, HSV, HWB, CIELAB, LCH, OKLCH, Display P3, Rec. 2020, and PMS Pantone references.
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Color Code Mapping
HEX represents colors in hexadecimal base-16 strings. RGB scales Red, Green, and Blue channels from 0 to 255. HSL calculates Hue (0-360°), Saturation (0-100%), and Lightness (0-100%). HSV and HWB restate the same hue wheel in terms designers often find easier to reason about — value and saturation in one case, whiteness and blackness in the other. CMYK represents print subtractive inks: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Key (Black).
The remaining formats exist because RGB is not perceptually even. Two colours the same numeric distance apart in RGB can look very different in how far apart they actually appear. CIE LAB and its cylindrical form LCH were built to correct that, which is why they are used for colour-difference calculations and quality control. OKLCH is a more recent revision that fixes the blue-hue distortion LAB is known for; it is the format to reach for when you want a set of swatches to look evenly spaced, or a gradient to avoid turning muddy in the middle.
Display P3 and Rec. 2020 are wide-gamut spaces. They describe colours more saturated than standard sRGB can show, which matters for modern phone and laptop screens but means a value that looks vivid there may flatten out on older hardware. Convert to sRGB and check before committing a wide-gamut colour to a brand palette.
The PMS Pantone field is a nearest-match approximation, not an authoritative lookup. Pantone inks are physical, mixed rather than screened, and several sit outside anything a monitor can display. Treat the suggestion as a starting point for a conversation with your printer, and confirm against a physical swatch book before a print run.