Color Converter

Design-to-development handoff is where color format mismatches surface. The Figma mock uses hex codes, the CSS variable is also hex, but the animation library or charting backend expects RGB tuples, and the print vendor wants each color specified as RGB percentages. Converting the brand palette into every format the project touches prevents the off-by-one drift that happens when someone approximates a color by eye in a different tool. A single authoritative conversion gives the design system one true value expressed in each required notation.

Data visualization code rarely accepts hex. Matplotlib, Plotly, pandas, and Excel chart color arguments take RGB tuples or HSL values, while palettes from web sources arrive as hex codes. Translating a palette before writing the chart code avoids the annoying step of splitting a hex string into three numbers by hand. The HSL view is equally useful when you need to generate tints and shades of a brand color for a chart theme, because adjusting lightness and saturation directly is far more intuitive than editing raw RGB channels.