Guide: Colour Spaces and Web Browsers

'Colour space' might sound like an odd expression, but it needn't be complicated. Colour spaces describe a standardised way of displaying the colours in photos, and, in particular, the limits of these colours. The limits of some colour spaces is why, for instance, fluorescent colours aren't always available on computer monitors.

Unfortunately, alongside the different colour spaces and hardware compatibility (which isn't always perfect), some web browsers struggle to handle user-defined colour spaces.  One obvious example is web browsers, which often don't manage to display photographs correctly, despite having access to the information about colour space.

We investigate which browsers do support alternative colour spaces-and what happens when they don't ...

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