Converting HSL to HSV
HSL expresses a color as a hue angle plus saturation and lightness percentages, which maps closely to how people think about color. HSV (also called HSB) describes a color by hue, saturation, and value/brightness — the model behind most color-picker wheels.
HSL and HSV are two ways of writing the same on-screen color, so converting between them is exact — it simply re-expresses the color in a notation that fits color pickers and image-editing tools like Photoshop and GIMP.
This HSL to HSV converter works instantly in your browser: type or pick a HSL color and the HSV value updates live, along with every other common format so you can copy whichever you need. Nothing is sent to a server, and it is completely free with no limits.
When do you need HSV?
Reach for HSV when you are working on color pickers and image-editing tools like Photoshop and GIMP. Designers and developers routinely convert HSL to HSV to move a color between a design workflow and a design one without eyeballing it. If you want to grab a color straight from an image instead of typing it, try our color picker from image, or build a full scheme with the palette generator.
You can also convert in the other direction with our HSV to HSL converter, or jump to any other format — the tool always shows HEX, RGB, HSL, HSV, and CMYK side by side.