Using HSL colors in WPF
One thing that has always irritated me about WPF is you’re still stuck specifying colors in RGB. HSL just feels so much more natural from a design standpoint. Well, we’re not completely out of luck — we’ve got markup extensions.
So I created my own HslColor and HslBrush extensions which are fairly simple to use:
<Window xmlns:e="clr-namespace:WpfExtensions"
Background="{e:HslBrush H=300,S=50,L=75,A=80}"/>
Hue is specified in degrees from 0 to 360, while Saturation, Lightness, and Alpha are from 0 to 100. The parameters are all doubles and it converts to scRGB behind the scenes, which means you actually get a much higher color precision than if you had just used the equivalent RGB hex. With Windows 7 having native support for scRGB, this will future-proof your application to make good use of upcoming monitors with Deep Color support.
