Would you expect this to be true or false?

darken(lighten($c, 25%), 25%) == $c

-chris

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Noel <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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