color spaces

oklab

The state of the art for perceptually uniform color spaces.

YCbCr is a family of color spaces traditionally used in analogue television.

An abstract mathematical model for how colors can be represented as data, often tuples of integers.

The model used for most self emissive / backlit devices. Red, Green, and Blue channels are added together in different proportions to form colors.

A subtractive color model usually used in color printing. The four primitives are Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Key (usually black).

The color model used for analogue television. Typically used with a ycbcr color space for digital or ypbpr for analogue.

A good overview of color spaces and their history.

Popular python library for color science, but can be used as a general reference of the most important algorithms and datasets.