Color selection interface

摘要

Techniques are disclosed for facilitating the selection of a color using a computer-based user interface. In one embodiment, the user interface includes a hue-saturation-brightness (HSB) color field and a luminosity slider. The HSB color field can be a two-dimensional field of a selected hue, with varying degrees of saturation displayed in one dimension, and varying degrees of brightness displayed in the other dimension. The luminosity slider can be a control element that adjusts the luminosity of a color having a selected hue and saturation. In such an embodiment, the HSB color field and the luminosity slider can be operatively coupled, such that modifying the luminosity of a selected color using the luminosity slider causes the resulting modified color to be indicated in the HSB color field. This provides the user with a better sense of how a selected color relates to other similar colors, thereby facilitating color selection.

主权项

1. A color selection method comprising:
displaying, on a display device, a hue-saturation-brightness (HSB) color field having colors of varying saturation arranged along a first axis and colors of varying brightness arranged along a second axis, wherein the HSB color field includes a selection indicator; displaying, on the display device, a band of colors having varying luminosity and including a user interface slider element displayed thereon; and moving the selection indicator within the HSB color field based on a detected movement of the user interface slider element, wherein an updated location of the selection indicator that corresponds to a detected location of the user interface slider element defines a selected color.