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CIELAB gives nicer looking gradient with clear colors without brown or gray tones, while keeping the luminosity more or less the same.
by kpil 9y ago
CIELAB gives nicer looking gradient with clear colors without brown or gray tones, while keeping the luminosity more or less the same.
- jacobolus 9y agoI’m not sure what you are responding to. “Gives nicer looking gradient” than what? CIELAB is a very simple model, which has been very successful but also has various deficiencies. In particular it specifies a broken method of white point adaptation (this can be swapped out), and involves a nasty blue-purple hue shift at constant CIELAB hue which can have big impacts on images put through a gamut mapping algorithm in CIELAB space, e.g. for printing.
- kpil 9y agoThan HSLuv. HSLuv seems to generate brown/gray intermediate colours when interpolating. CIELAB interpolates through clearer hues. In my opinion that looks nicer on charts such as heat maps, etc, but it might not be a good choice as a general tool.