Include tint() color function in documentation

[aghreed]

I don't believe I'm missing anything here, but tint() is definitely a function in LESS despite it not existing in documentation. See: less/less.js#944

[seven-phases-max]

Yes, as well as shade. I guess they've been forgotten just because they are both shorthand aliases for mix.

[nathancooper]

Agreed for both Tint and Shade. I discovered those two functions exist via Codepen. As the demo shows, those functions add more perceivable gradations in color, i.e., slower to reach pure white or black.

[seven-phases-max]

As the demo shows, those functions add more perceivable gradations in color,

Well, tint and shade are yet again just shorthands for mix(*, white, *) and mix(*, black, *) respectively so no useful functionality is really concealed in a strict sense (it's more about syntactic sugar and understanding the arithmetics behind this stuff).

[nathancooper]

Thanks, I didn't notice the reference to mix in your first comment.

On a sort of related note, is it possible for LESS to use HSB instead of HSL color space? The reason I ask is that Adobe products (perhaps other design software as well) use HSB not HSL.

It seems minor, but if you select a color in Illustrator, e.g., #fbb03b and make is 20% darker lowering the B(rightness) value, the resulting color isn't the same as if you used the LESS darken(#fbb03b, 20%) function. Sometimes the difference is subtle, but often it's not. Perhaps shade(#ffb03b, 20%) produces the desired effect?

[seven-phases-max]

On a sort of related note, is it possible for LESS to use HSB instead of HSL color space?

See less/less.js#1853.

Perhaps shade(#ffb03b, 20%) produces the desired effect?

No, these are a bit different effects.