Color Converter – Convert HEX, RGB, HSL, LCH & OKLCH Free
About the Color Converter
The Color Converter lets you pick any color and instantly see it in six different formats — HEX, RGB, RGBA, HSL, LCH, and OKLCH. Use the visual color picker or type a value directly, and every format updates in real time, along with detailed color info like lightness, chroma, and hue.
This tool is built for designers, developers, and website owners who work across different color systems in CSS, design tools, or code. Beyond conversion, it generates ready-to-use color palettes — shades, complementary, analogous, triadic, split-complementary, and tetradic — and includes a built-in WCAG contrast checker to confirm your color choices meet accessibility standards.
Our team checked every color format and palette generator to make sure the conversions and accessibility results are consistent and easy to use.
How to Use the Color Converter
- Use the color picker or type a value directly into the HEX field to select a color.
- View the color instantly converted into RGB, RGBA, HSL, LCH, and OKLCH formats.
- Click Copy next to any format to copy that value to your clipboard.
- Check the Color Info panel for lightness, chroma, hue, and OKLCH lightness values.
- Browse Color Palettes — Shades & Tints, Complementary, Analogous, Triadic, Split-Complementary, or Tetradic — and click any swatch to switch to that color.
- Check the Accessibility Contrast section to see WCAG AA/AAA pass or fail ratings against white and black backgrounds.
Example Usage
Input: HEX color #2563EB
Output:
- RGB: rgb(37, 99, 235)
- HSL: hsl(221, 83%, 53%)
- LCH: lch(46.1, 72.4, 275.5)
- OKLCH: oklch(0.546, 0.215, 264.1)
- Contrast on white background: 4.53:1 (Passes AA)
This makes it easy to take a single brand color and confirm it works across your CSS, design tokens, and accessibility requirements in one step.
Working on a web project? You can also use our CSS Minifier to optimize your stylesheets, CSS Beautifier to format CSS code, or HTML Beautifier to keep your markup clean and readable.
Frequently Asked Questions
Both are perceptually uniform color spaces, but OKLCH is a newer, improved model that handles color interpolation and lightness more accurately, making it increasingly popular in modern CSS.
It shows the contrast ratio between your selected color and a white or black background, along with whether it passes WCAG AA (4.5:1) and AAA (7:1) accessibility standards for text.
Yes, the tool automatically generates six palette types — Shades & Tints, Complementary, Analogous, Triadic, Split-Complementary, and Tetradic — based on your selected color.
HEX and RGB are the most widely supported, while HSL is popular for adjusting lightness and saturation. OKLCH is gaining support in modern browsers for more accurate color manipulation.
Yes, this tool is completely free with no signup required.
