sRGB
Sign in to saveAlso known as standard Red Green Blue, IEC 61966-2-1:1999, IEC 61966-2-1, sRGB colour space
sRGB (standard RGB) is a color space, for use on monitors, printers, and the World Wide Web. It was initially proposed by HP and Microsoft in 1996 and became an official standard of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) as IEC 61966-2-1:1999. It is the current standard colorspace for the web, and it is usually the assumed colorspace for images that do not have an embedded color profile.
Key facts
- Technology standard.title
- sRGB
- Technology standard.long_name
- IEC 61966-2-1 Default RGB Colour Space - sRGB
- Technology standard.native_name_lang
- English
- Technology standard.image
- SRGB chromaticity CIE1931.svg
- Technology standard.caption
- sRGB gamut plotted within the . Luminance Y set so that R+G+B = 1.
- Technology standard.status
- Published
- Technology standard.year_started
- 1996
- Technology standard.committee
- '/': TC 100/TA 2
- Technology standard.base_standards
- IEC 61966 Colour Measurement and Management in Multimedia Systems and Equipment
- Technology standard.abbreviation
- sRGB
- Technology standard.domain
- Color space, color model
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- CIExy1931 sRGB.svg
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- SRGB
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Article
12 sectionsContents
- History
- Definition
- Transfer function ("gamma")
- Deriving the transfer function
- Primaries
- Viewing environment
- Translation to integers
- Usage
- Programming interface support
- ICC profiles
- References
- External links
sRGB (standard RGB) is a color space, for use on monitors, printers, and the World Wide Web. It was initially proposed by HP and Microsoft in 1996 and became an official standard of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) as IEC 61966-2-1:1999. It is the current standard colorspace for the web, and it is usually the assumed colorspace for images that do not have an embedded color profile.
The sRGB standard uses the same color primaries and white point as the ITU-R BT.709 standard for HDTV, but a different transfer function (or gamma) compatible with the era's CRT displays, and assumes a viewing environment closer to typical home and office viewing conditions. Matching the behavior of PC video cards and CRT displays greatly aided sRGB's popularity.