Escaping the sRGB Prison

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Claim: modern web is stuck in an sRGB “prison” that excludes roughly 50% of gamut volume used off‑web. Tools demonstrated include display-p3 colors, OKLab/OKLCH mixing and gamut‑volume plots, a color‑space converter plus live CodePen demos, and a proposed canvas HDR behind flag workflow. Results show OKLab/OKLCH produces perceptually better gradients and gamut‑mapping than CIE LAB; Safari already implements many CSS Color 4 features, other browsers partially support them and are racing to improve via Interop2022.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 3:01Light and Dark
3. 3:49Opponent colors
4. 11:04Lots of color formats
5. 34:34Current browser support
6. 35:07Color Spaces and

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