Color Converter

Welcome to our web color converter, a useful tool that helps you convert colors between CMYK, Hex, RGB, and many other color formats. Whether you're a web designer trying to convert to Hex color code formats or a print enthusiast looking for a reliable CMYK color converter, you're in the right place! 🎨

In this article, you'll find out how color code conversion works and how to make sure that your colors always look on point. Let's get started!

Colors are everywhere: green leaves, blue skies, and colorful flowers surround us every day. However, in the digital world, colors are a completely different concept — they're nothing other than a set of numbers that look like gibberish to most of us. That's why we need web color converters to translate colors between the existing color models.

Why, you may ask? Because different tech devices speak different languages: your monitor emits light using RGB (red, green, blue), while your printer's color palette is based on the CMYK model (cyan, magenta, yellow, key). So, whenever you need to print something, your computer takes the RGB values and calculates the corresponding ink percentages.

Let's take a look at the differences between these three main color models, so that you can use our color code converter effectively.

1. RGB (red, green, blue)

   RGB is an additive color model — it starts from a black screen and adds light. It's mainly used for screens, phones, cameras, and web design. It ranges from 0 to 255, with 255 representing full intensity and 0 representing darkness.

2. Hex (hexadecimal)

   This model is similar to RGB, meaning that it is also based on red, green, and blue, but it uses a six-digit hexadecimal code to express the colors. It's best for web developers and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets).

3. CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, key)

   CMYK is a subtractive model that starts with white (for example, paper) and adds a certain amount of color to subtract brightness. It's mainly used for printing.

4. HSL (hue, saturation, lightness)

   HSL doesn't mix colors; instead, it allows you to pick a hue (color), decide how vibrant it is (saturation), and choose how bright it is (lightness).

Our color code converter allows you to enter the name of your color or color codes in six different formats: RGB, Hex, HSL, HWB, CMYK, and NCol.

1. Choose the color model of your code from the drop-down menu.
2. Insert your color code or name below.
3. There you have it! The color converter will translate your input into all the different color models.

Hex color code conversion is one of the most common tasks for web designers, who regularly need to translate RGB values for use in coding.

Let's say you have an RGB value of 224:

1. Divide by 16: 224 / 16 = 14.
2. Find the Hex equivalent — the number 14 corresponds to the letter E in Hex.
3. Check the remainder, which in this case is equal to 0.
4. Therefore, our Hex code is E0.

This conversion is something that our CMYK to Hex color converter can do without any issues; however, it's always handy to understand how the math behind this color code converter actually works.

When you ask a tool to convert a Hex color to CMYK, it usually performs a two-step mathematical conversion:

• First, it translates the Hexadecimal code back to RGB;
• Then, it converts the obtained RGB value into the printing-friendly CMYK values.

Here is how a standard RGB to CMYK color code conversion works:

1. Let's take a beautiful purple with the following RGB values:

   • R = 110
   • G = 40
   • B = 200

2. Normalize the RGB values by dividing by 255:

   • R' = 110 / 255 = 0.431
   • G' = 40 / 255 = 0.157
   • B' = 200 / 255 = 0.784

3. Find the key component (black):

   K = 1 − max(R', G', B')

   K = 1 − max (0.431, 0.157, 0.784) = 1 − 0.784 = 0.216 = 21.6% ≈ 22%

4. Calculate the remaining colors – cyan, magenta, and yellow:

   • C = (1 − R' - K) / (1 − K)

     C = (1 − 0.431 − 0.216) / (1 − 0.216) = 0.45 = 45%

   • M = (1 − G' − K) / (1 − K)

     M = (1 − 0.157 − 0.216) / (1 − 0.216) = 0.799 = 79.9% ≈ 80%

   • Y = (1 − B' − K) / (1 − K)

     Y = (1 − 0.784 − 0.216) / (1 − 0.216) = 0%

5. Therefore, the result of our CMYK color conversion is the following:

   • C = 45%
   • M = 80%
   • Y = 0%
   • K = 22%

6. Remember that you can use our tool as a CMYK color converter if you want to avoid doing all these calculations. 😁