¶ All About Colour - Colour Science

• How do we perceive colour

  • Visible Spectrum
  • Spectral Sensitivity of Human Cone Cells
  • Experiment → CIE XYZ standard observer colour matching function

• Keywords

  • Colour Space, Colour Model, Colour Gamut

• Colour Space

  • History
    • 1931 - CIE XYZ
    • 1948 - Hunter Lab
    • 1976 - CIE LAB
    • 2020 - OKLab
  • CIE colour space and CIELAB colour space
  • Perceptually Uniform Colour
    • CIELAB colour space and OKLab colour space
    • What are benefits of using Perceptually Uniform Colour space?
  • sRGB, AdobeRGB, DCI-P3

• Colour Model

  • RGB
  • HSV, HSL, HSB
  • LAB
  • XYZ

• Colour Gamut

• Charts

  • Chromaticity - CIE colour space
  • Cone response - Spectral Sensitivity of Human Cone Cells
  • Experiment - CIE XYZ standard observer colour matching function

• Resources

  • The Physics and Psychology of Colour - with Andrew Hanson
  • How to pick colour for game shaderYour Colours Suck (it’s not your fault) by Acerola