Inspect and manipulate the new CSS color formats in Sass!
CSS has a range of new color functions that support wider color gamuts (like display-p3) and perceptually uniform color adjustments (like oklch). Sass now provides additional tools for working with these new color formats, and converting between them.
If you want to learn more about CSS color spaces and the tradeoff they provide, or if you’re just interested in the new Sass functionality, I’ve written about it on the Sass Blog.
Some of the highlights:
color.space().color.to-space().color.to-gamut().color.adjust() or color.channel()
accept a $space parameter for making adjustments or inspecting
in an arbitrary color space.
So, you have a site that you want to build or redesign. Maybe you have a few core colors in mind, and you’re thinking about how to quickly implement a theme based on those colors. Baseline features can help!
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