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I noticed on the Color Picker, for example, if you choose a swatch that's pure white, or create one, then close it and come back to it, the color picker itself is offset from where it should be. I am pretty sure this happens with other shades as well. Making a pure white swatch to test it is the easiest way to see it in action!

we will figure it out in the next meetig: [/strip/1833](/strip/1833)

just checked it: the numbers seem to be accurate and that is what matters if you mean the little rectangle indicator: yes that is off

Oh my gosh, that explains why colour mixing has felt off! No, the indicator definitely matters. The numbers...? Those are probably important on the technical side, but on the user side, they don't really tell me much of anything! If I'm trying to adjust a colour I was previously using, and I'm going to make the judgement of it based on the position of the indicator. So let's say I want a lighter and more saturated version of the colour, I'd look at the indicator and pick a position up and right of it. However if the indicator isn't where the original colour actually is, what I'm picking isn't accurate to the adjustment I'm aiming to make. While the user could compensate for this offset, if they know about it, it's still needlessly annoying!

the hue indicator is accurate, it's the sat-light one that is not so (something about there are multiple solutions for its placement) anyway I didn't expect that to be so important, I'll see if I can do something about it (but I kinda doubt it) 🤔

Oh, no it's a big deal. I've noticed it and figured it was just a technical limitation maybe, but the color you're choosing is always way off... From what I can tell some colors are impossible to pick unless you type in the code manually. Specifically if I'm trying to make light colors that are bright it turns them into more gray strange muted colors. Not the best thing. (By lighter colors I mean a less color saturated color. Like keeping the slider at the top between white and the color amount if that makes sense)

there are several limitations due to javascript: the current one uses a technique to blend two gradients for the saturation/lightness rectangle and there is some limitation with the back and forth of the HSL to RGB conversion and for the little black rectangle its easy to read out the value but setting its x,y coordinates based on the SL has multiple solutions so despite being on the correct values it won't be in the place you last left it I guess we could replace it with a different selector? 🤔 or just add in the standard html5 selector as an option?

I'm glad others noticed this too! The unexpected switching to other shades (I don't do anything by referring to numbers so that would be an alien operation method... I'd have to actually start associating specific colors with number codes. I know the Old Masters and their more modern incarnation Norman Rockwell were big on that but I'm not there yet) really plays havoc with trying to paint intuitively. A fix to something calibrated would be great!

`TeeEffDee` `Scones and Cones` please check if you like the update (note: the text based part is still dodgy)

Hmmm... obviously it still does the thing where you pick a color and come back and that color is selected is in a different spot.... I THINK I can choose all the colors though, which I definitely appreciate! That was the larger issue in my own humble opinion, however, if it's feasible to fix the other issue that would also be nice! Thanks for changing that Peyo!

I think I screwed up the calculation a bit (didn't took the distance to account) 😔 anyway I did a small update and it should be more accurate now (not guaranteed to land on the exact spot as there are also multiple solutions for the coordinates but it should be in one of the accurate spots) also I changed the text input to be more agreeable - it won't recalculate the value you just set now you can set bogus values for your amusement - bit of a tradeoff but I doubt anyone will mind this one.. so I expect it to be reported as a bug pretty soon 🤔 anyway, let me know what you think!

It's definitely a lot better! There's a slight offset, but it's not too noticeable. For sure a step up from what we had before!

Quite a big improvement, thank you for addressing the issue! It will make life a lot easier for those who do not choose colors by numeric value alone.