studying digital color science and figuring out how incredibly wrong a lot of image processing software and even widespread standards like CSS are about color, much stuff we could be doing better but aren’t (like the 1931 color primaries and observers i mentioned before; you can calibrate displays to what measures as identical in that system but looks very different to human eyes)
fucking CSS specifying effects to be applied in non-linear sRGB, SVG renderers basically doing all their alpha blending the same way, image editing software that SHOULD know better applying scaling and rotation without linearizing first, confusing terms like saturation, chroma, colorfulness (they all mean different things)
the fact that made-up bullshit like HSL/HSV/HWB is still in use anywhere… these are derived by rotating RGB around a bit and only exist because early computers were too slow for color math, and RGB is a radiometric space, not a perceptual space. you DO NOT DO COLOR MANIPULATION IN A RADIOMETRIC SPACE. they’re completely useless.
mia (developer mode)
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