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- Instance of
- color scheme
- Subclass of
- artificial object
- Named after
- space
- Image
- Color spaces.png
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- topic has template
- Template:Color space
- partially coincident with
- color solid
- Commons category
- Color spaces
- topic's main category
- Category:Color space
- Commons gallery
- Farbraum
- exact match
- cv.iptc.org/newscodes/colorspace
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Encyclopedic overview
Comparison of some RGB and CMYK chromaticity gamuts on a CIE 1931 xy chromaticity diagram A comparison of the chromaticities enclosed by some color spaces
A color space is a specific organization of colors. In combination with color profiling supported by various physical devices, it supports reproducible representations of color – whether such representation entails an analog or a digital representation. A color space may be arbitrary, i.e. with physically realized colors assigned to a set of physical color swatches with corresponding assigned color names (including discrete numbers in – for example – the Pantone collection), or structured with mathematical rigor (as with the NCS System, Adobe RGB and sRGB). A "color space" is a useful conceptual tool for understanding the color capabilities of a particular device or digital file. When trying to reproduce color on another device, color spaces can show whether shadow/highlight detail and color saturation can be retained, and by how much either will be compromised.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “color space” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.