[CREATE] Color swatches, models and profiles

[Jon Phillips]

What is the website and info on the project again? I think this is a
cool project. I don't know enough to comment on the below...Jon Cruz
from Inkscape would be good commenter.

Jon

On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 11:58 +0100, Olivier BERTEN wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> 
> Happy New Year ;-)
> 
> 
> 
> I'm going on with my SwatchBooker project and I'm now investigating
> color management for color swatches.
> 
> 
> COLOR MODELS: Which color models make sense in a color swatch?
> 
> The current create draft includes RGB, CMYK, Lab, HSV, HLS, Luv, XYZ,
> Yxy, Gray, YCbCr. What about CMY, YIQ, Hexachrome (used by Corel)?
> 
> What about duotones and other hifi inks? What about named colors
> accompanied by a nmcl profile?
> 
> 
> COLOR PROFILES: Which color profiles make sense in a color swatch?
> 
> Should it be limited to mntr, prtr and scnr(nkpf)? spac and abst are
> used for computation and conversions. They aren't real color spaces.
> Is this correct?
> 
> 
> 
> Which color profile for which model?
> 
> RGB, HSV, HLS, CMY, YCbCr/YPbPr/YCC, YIQ/YUV/YDbDr => RGB
> 
> CMYK => CMYK
> 
> Gray => GRAY or CMYK (or RGB ?)
> 
> Lab, Luv, XYZ, Yxy => Do they need color profiles or just parameters
> (illuminant, rendering intent, ...) ?
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> 
> Olivier
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