While working on a design system recently, I kept running into the same frustrating problem: I'd grab a color from Figma in HEX format, need it in HSL for a CSS variable, and end up bouncing between three different websites just to convert one value. Each site had its own UI quirks, some required JavaScript to be enabled, and none of them gave me a proper color scheme alongside the conversion.
So I did what any reasonable developer would do — I built my own. Because apparently I enjoy reinventing wheels.
The Problem With Existing Solutions
The existing color converter tools online weren't bad, but they had a few issues that bugged me:
They were slow — many loaded heavy JavaScript libraries just to do simple math
