Color

• CIE XYZ values
• sRGB color space
• larger-gamut color spaces
• perceptual color spaces
  • Cover some similar ground as Oklab blog post
  • Probably introduce luma / chroma / hue model & Munsell history
    • perceptual color space is noneuclidean
  • CIELab is standard perceptual color space but has bad hue shift
  • IPT (family) has excellent hue
  • CIECAM is sophisticated
    • but performs poorly on gradient task because of chroma compression
• gamut compression

Resources

• Poynton Color FAQ. A classic resource but missing information on more recent developments such as sRGB.

• Colour Appearance Issues in Digital Video, HD/UHD, and D‑cinema. This is Poynton’s 2018 PhD, with very rich information on modern digital video formats.

• color vision by Bruce MacEvoy. A comprehensive resource, arguably the best on the web.

• The Wikipedia article on sRGB is ok and links to other resources.

Color science has been a mature topic for some time. Here are a number of books on the topic, sorted by date:

• Color in Business, Science, and Industry, Judd and Wyszecki, 1975.

• Color Science: Concepts and Methods, Quantitative Data and Formulae, Wyszecki and Stiles, 2000.

• A Field Guide to Digital Color, Maureen Stone, 2003. (Also see A Survey of Color for Computer Graphics, SIGGRAPH 2001 course notes)

• The Reproduction of Colour, RWG Hunt, 2004.

• Colorimetry: Understanding the CIE System, Janos Schanda (ed), 2007.

• Color: An Introduction to Practice and Principles, Rolf Kuehni, 2012.

• Color Appearance Models, Mark Fairchild, 2013.

• Billmeyer and Saltzman’s Principles of Color Technology, Roy Berns, 2019.