For what it's worth, as a outside observer just following along and
having never used the function.  My initial expectation upon reading
darken($light-blue, 50%) was that it would be darkened by 50%.

so in the example given
arken(#ADC1CC, 50%) =~ #2F414B, since 74% - 50% = 24%

I was expecting 74%/2 not 74%-50%

Wonder what others would expect.


On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Nathan Weizenbaum <[email protected]> wrote:
> mix() will actually modify the saturation. darken() does darken the color
> without affecting hue and saturaton; it just does it on an absolute scale.
> So darken($light-blue, 50%) will lower the lightness by 50%, not make it
> half as light.
>
> To get precisely the effect you want, you could do darken($light-blue,
> lightness($light-blue)/2). However, I would hope that darken() on its own
> serve you well enough.
>
> As a side note, in Sass 3.2, we'll allow users to define their own
> functions, so you can make a scale-lightness() function that does something
> like lighten($color, $scale * lightness($color)).
>
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 3:04 PM, BladeBronson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> Ah ha... I figured that SASS was too well-written for something this
>> big to still be around. I honestly mean that.
>>
>> My first instinct to darken a color (and not affect hue or saturation)
>> was to use the darken($light-blue, 50%) function. It looks like I
>> should be using mix($light-blue, #000000) or mix($light-blue, #000000,
>> XX%) for finer control.
>>
>> Thanks for clearing this up, fellas.
>>
>>
>> On Aug 25, 2:15 pm, Nathan Weizenbaum <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 2:07 PM, BladeBronson
>> > <[email protected]>wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > > Before I file this, I'm just trying to figure out how much of this I'm
>> > > misunderstanding. :)
>> >
>> > > Using Photoshop orhttp://www.opentopia.com/tools/colcal/, my light
>> > > blue color (#ADC1CC) has the following values:
>> > > Hue: 201
>> > > Saturation: 15
>> > > Lightness: 80
>> >
>> > > Using SASS:
>> > > >> $c = #ADC1CC
>> > > #adc1cc
>> > > >> hue($c)
>> > > 201.29deg
>> > > >> saturation($c)
>> > > 23.308%
>> > > >> lightness($c)
>> > > 73.922%
>> >
>> > > Saturation and Lightness are substantially off. Is this a bug, or
>> > > expected?
>> >
>> > Note that on the link you gave, it lists hue, saturation, and
>> > *brightness*.
>> > This is a different color space than hue, saturation, and *lightness*.
>> > Confusing, I know. Seehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSL_and_HSVfor an
>> > overview of the difference. Since CSS3 uses HSL, so do we.
>>
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