HSV to HEX Converter
Convert HSV (Hue, Saturation, Value) color values to a hex color code instantly, with sliders and a live color preview.
Hue (H)
207°
Saturation (S)
86%
Value (V)
95%
Hex Result:
Red
34
Green
148
Blue
242
Color Preview:
How to Use the HSV to HEX Converter
Adjust the Hue (0-360°), Saturation (%), and Value (%) sliders and the equivalent hex color code appears instantly, along with a live preview swatch. Behind the scenes, the tool first converts HSV to RGB using the standard formula — computing a chroma value from Saturation and Value, mapping that chroma onto the correct RGB channels based on which 60° segment of the color wheel the hue falls in, then adding a matching offset to all three channels — and finally formats the resulting RGB values as a hex string.
Example
hsv(207, 86%, 95%) converts to approximately #2294F2, a blue very close to the common material-design blue #2196F3 (small differences come from rounding at each conversion step).
Common Use Cases
- Converting an HSV value from image-editing software (like Photoshop's color picker) into a hex code for CSS or design tools.
- Exploring how changing Saturation or Value while keeping Hue fixed affects the resulting color.
- Getting the exact hex code for a color you dialed in visually using Hue/Saturation/Value sliders.
FAQs
- How is HSV different from HSL? Both use a hue angle plus two other components, but HSV's components are Saturation and Value (brightness relative to the brightest channel), while HSL uses Saturation and Lightness (where 50% lightness is the purest color and 100% is pure white). HSV maps more directly onto the color pickers found in many graphics editors.
- Why might the hex output not exactly match a color I saw elsewhere? RGB channels are whole numbers from 0-255, while HSV values are continuous, so converting HSV to RGB (and then to hex) can introduce very small rounding differences — usually invisible to the eye but occasionally off by a shade of 1 in a channel.
- What happens at 0% Saturation or 0% Value? At 0% Saturation, the Hue has no effect and the result is always a shade of gray (from black at 0% Value to white at 100% Value). At 0% Value, the result is always pure black regardless of Hue or Saturation.