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Yeah, every time I see articles about importance of linear color space for gradients, and see images there, I observe the opposite of what’s written in the text
by Const-me 2y ago
Yeah, every time I see articles about importance of linear color space for gradients, and see images there, I observe the opposite of what’s written in the text of these articles. Gradients in sRGB color space look better.
I have a suspicion that might be because I usually buy designer-targeted wide gamut IPS displays. I also set up low brightness on them, e.g. right now I’m looking at BenQ PD2700U display with brightness 10/100 and contrast 50/100. However, sRGB color space was developed decades ago for CRT displays.
- obrhubr 2y agoYour monitor and your browser 100% affect the appearance. After calibrating your monitor, try opening the image in full resolution and take a few steps back. For me, viewing the images on my phone makes them look off.
- ack_complete 2y agoIt's not you or your display, linear color just isn't great for gradients: https://bottosson.github.io/posts/colorwrong/ https://bottosson.github.io/posts/colorwrong/ It can be better than sRGB for the color part of gradients but is awful for the brightness axis. The reason why linear color is so important for operations like blending light, antialiasing, and dithering is also why it is bad where perceptual uniformity is desired. sRGB isn't as good as Oklab or CIELAB perceptually, but a grayscale ramp rendered in linear color is so distorted towards white it's useless. Image formats also encode non-linear color for good reason. "Use linear color everywhere" is overly simplistic and bad advice.