# Useful CSS Stuff

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**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective\
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## HSL (“human readable”) Colour Cheat Sheet

I've added this to a few posts now before realising it really belongs here…

I made an HSL cheat sheet in Perspective to help remember the Hue values in the human-readable HSL colour format (as opposed to the relatively human-unintelligable RGB).

And if you need help convincing why you should abandon RGB for HSL:

> [@\[BUG-3882\] Perspective colour properties not showing HSL colour in preview](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/bug-3882-perspective-colour-properties-not-showing-hsl-colour-in-preview/49878/4):
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> Say you have rgb 85, 186, 146 or #55ba92 Firstly, without looking it up, what colour is that? How bright is it? (you can get a rough idea) What kind of saturation is it? (again, rough idea) Now, I want to lower the saturation and keep the same hue. exploding_head What about changing the brightness while keeping hue? exploding_head HSL. Knowing that Saturation and Lightness are in %, and Hue is from 0 to 360deg and that each main colour is every 30 degrees (0 red, 30 orange, 60 yellow, e…

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[HSL Cheat Sheet.zip](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/uploads/short-url/t5zmywFce0rkswWMZScggxTYxpg.zip) (27.8 KB)

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