> Unfortunately, by calling it a "color space", we've misled the vast majority of developers into believing that you can do math on sRGB colors, and by exposing

> Unfortunately, by calling it a "color space", we've misled the vast majority of developers into believing that you can do math on sRGB colors, and by exposing the raw sRGB numbers to users, we've misled them into thinking those numbers have a reasonable meaning. But sRGB spec does specify a color space ! And these numbers do have a meaning - the unreasonableness is with people's assumptions. The issue here seems to be rather that developers and users, when hearing "space", assume a linear, Euclidean space, except color spaces are usually none of these ! But I don't really see what other word could be used here instead of "space" ? ---- A related issue (and potentially a fix) : In 2015 developers (and users) could (usually) just stay blissfully ignorant of colorimetry and assume sRGB everywhere. Today, with wider gamut screens becoming common even in non-professional monitors ("HDR"), and non-Apple OSes starting to get proper support for non-sRGB specs, sRGB cannot be assumed everywhere. So learning some colorimetry might be a pre-requisite for comptetence now. (Except for Web text colors, IIRC they're still limited to 8 bit per color = 256 values, sRGB ?)