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Re:Towards richer colors on the Web by traceroute66 on Saturday July 03, 2021 @06:36AM (#27720639)
With a lot of things fighting for my time, could someone give me a TL;DR ? Specifically, is this blog post just another a re-hash of the modern web colour stuff already covered in Refactoring UI[1] ?

[1] https://www.refactoringui.com/book

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Re:Towards richer colors on the Web by nine_k on Saturday July 03, 2021 @06:46AM (#27720674)
To;dr: traditional sRGB displays have a narrow color gamut, the new displays have a much better gamut, with brighter reds and greens. A new color API uses Lab and LCh color spaces, better suited to human vision, allow interesting ways to express and manipulate color, including the newly available. Chromium has some support, if you have the right screen (I don't). The API is backwards compatible to sRGB screens. Many small demos.
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