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I think the real story is subjective, not quantitative. Color pickers:

https://bottosson.github.io/misc/colorpicker/

OKHSL works a lot better than the alternatives. It's really nice!

OKHSV doesn't seem as good, and neither do the other new ones.

And speaking subjectively, I have always preferred HSV because I came to color from the background of mixing pigments (painting). Adding white to a pigment to desaturate it (make it more pastel) is intuitive with paints ... as is adding black to darken a pigment.

HSV (and Okhsv) more closely match my painterly intuition.

HSV and not HSL for that mental model? That's surprising to me—I thought the tint/shade system would lead to wanting to put max-chroma in the middle.

Oh that really helped me understand this whole thing.

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