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> #FF0000 isn't super ultra red ... you mean, because it is super ultra orangish red? Your display’s version of FF0000 is literally the most intense vaguely re
by jacobolus 5y ago
> #FF0000 isn't super ultra red
... you mean, because it is super ultra orangish red? Your display’s version of FF0000 is literally the most intense vaguely red type of color that it can produce. Some standard RGB space’s version of FF0000 is literally the most intense vaguely red type of color that it can represent. The sRGB version is so colorful that it should be avoided for most practical purposes. Forget about ever putting the P3 version of FF0000 on screen, unless you hate your audience.
Or do you just mean it’s less intense than e.g. a laser pointer?
- sp332 5y agoliterally the most intense vaguely red type of color that it can produce It's not, because we're talking about #FF0000 in a specific color space. Most monitors these days can go well beyond sRGB's version of red, but you have to have some way to express that through the software to the monitor. This shouldn't just be the brightest red your display can show, unless you calibrated it that way on purpose.
- jacobolus 5y agoBy chopping “Your display’s version of FF0000” out of your quotation, you dropped the whole point of the sentence, which is about the native RGB space of your display. That some displays have a narrower-spectrum (and therefore more colorful) “R” primary than the sRGB spec is literally the premise of this conversation, and is understood by everyone here. But the sRGB spec’d primary is still extremely intense, beyond the practical needs of any user interface and the vast majority of images/videos.