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#CSS color what's the difference between adjusting lightness, adding white, and adding black? feel it out, here in this Codepen column 1: from color to 100% lightness 2: from color to white 3. from color to black 4. from color to 0% lightness codepen.io/argyleink/pe...

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i wish i could say there was "just one" to go with, but there isnt! - sometimes lightness adjustments are best, but suck at edge cases - sometimes adding white is best, but can desaturate - sometimes adding black is best all depends on the source color and what you're aiming towards…

You could specially map chroma towards 0 (like done with lightness), this would get back to making color steps. But question is, would the steps be good as you pull chroma out?

They did for a short while in Chrome! Broke away from the color space to make it easier on authors, but it was undone to not deviate from how those color spaces work elsewhere.