CMYK to HSV Converter
Convert a CMYK colour to HSV, with a live swatch and every other notation alongside.
To convert CMYK to HSV, paste your colour above — any recognisable notation is accepted, including named CSS colours — and every format is shown at once with a live swatch. HSV is what colour pickers use internally. It differs from HSL in how it treats brightness — at full value HSV gives a pure hue, where HSL at full lightness gives white.
Runs in your browserAbout converting CMYK to HSV
CMYK is a print colour space, and the conversion is an approximation: screens emit light, ink absorbs it, and vivid RGB colours have no CMYK equivalent at all. HSV is what colour pickers use internally. It differs from HSL in how it treats brightness — at full value HSV gives a pure hue, where HSL at full lightness gives white. Because CMYK depends on the ink, paper and press, a conversion without a colour profile is an estimate — send artwork to a printer in their profile rather than relying on a generic number.