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kllrnohjtoday at 2:52 PM2 repliesview on HN

graphic designers don't really see any of this, either. It's going to be photo junkies or people working on image processing systems (either building them or using them) that have to deal with this.

But for the most part this shouldn't really matter much. A huge amount of things these days are properly color managed, so as long as the thing that wrote the profile actually, you know, wrote what it actually wanted then it'll display just fine regardless of how many different "sRGB" profiles there are floating around. We're largely past the days of just hoping that the image and the display happen to agree on roughly the same colors.


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gpvostoday at 4:24 PM

The problem, as I described in another comment, is that the average programmer doesn't know enough about colour spaces, and sometimes must choose a colour profile while not knowing nor understanding what they actually want. They can figure out that an "sRGB" profile is probably what they want, but then there should not be such a plethora of different versions of that, as choosing between them is impossible for anyone not in the know.

esafaktoday at 3:18 PM

This is more like the stuff Linux users had to endure in the bad old days of setting up drivers. Concerns of twenty years ago. I remember the days people compared their colorimeters and profiled their own monitors. I'm too old for this.

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