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PredefinedColorSpace srgb-linear and display-p3-linear

Category

Miscellaneous

Type

Chromium catches up

Status

Proposed (Chrome Proposed)

Intent stage

None

Summary

Add srgb-linear and display-p3-linear color spaces (as defined by CSS) to PredefinedColorSpace for use with canvases.

Motivation

Linear color spaces (where pixel values correspond linearly to luminance) are extremely commonly used in applications with connections to physical light rendering (e.g, games) or spatial processing (e.g, decimation, anti-aliasing, and interpolation).

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/canvas.html#colour-spaces-and-colour-correction
• Firefox: No signal
• Safari: Positive — Suggested by WebKit, already implemented in WebKit.
• Web developers: Positive — Partners have repeatedly requested linear working color spaces
• Tracking bug: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/454152417

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