7 Digital Colour Technology

Under construction! Please see also Digital Colour Specification and Spaces and Online and Downloadable Programs on preceding page, 6 Colour Order Systems.

 The Hitchhiker's Guide to Digital Colour (@troy_s)

• https://hg2dc.com/

• A superbly presented and authoritative step-by-step introduction to digital colour.

Myndex

• https://git.myndex.com/

• Massive catalog of Myndex Research content, including APCA articles & documentation, related code repositories, and great resources on visual perception relevant to legibility of text.

Color & Contrast (Nate Baldwin)

• https://colorandcontrast.com/#/

• New (2022) site full of excellent explanations and interactive demonstrations on topics from physiology of the eye through to colour spaces, colour formulae, device colour modes and UI & data visualization.

Colorwiki (CHROMIX Inc.)

• http://www.colorwiki.com/wiki/ColorWiki_Home 

• Mix of user-edited and authored articles mainly concerned with colour management.

John the Math Guy (John Seymour) 

• http://johnthemathguy.blogspot.com.au/

• "Applied math and color science with a liberal sprinkling of goofy humor".

Colour science

• https://www.colour-science.org/ e.g.:

• https://www.colour-science.org/posts/the-importance-of-terminology-and-srgb-uncertainty/ 

Nine degrees below (Elle Stone)

• https://ninedegreesbelow.com/ especially:  

• https://ninedegreesbelow.com/photography/articles.html (articles on colour management)

• https://ninedegreesbelow.com/photography/xyz-rgb.html (painless Guide to XYZ, RGB, ICC, xyY, and TRCs)

• Color management, photography and painting using free/libre software.

Color management and colorimetry (Marcelo Copetti, in Portuguese)

• https://marcelocopetti.blogspot.com/ 

Introduction to color in digital filmmaking  (Filmmaker IQ)

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7MdPJqEOU4 

Academy Color Encoding System (ACES) forum

• https://community.acescentral.com/ 

• See also the ACES YouTube channel.

An interactive review of Oklab (Ralph Leviens)

• https://raphlinus.github.io/color/2021/01/18/oklab-critique.html

Perceptually uniform color models and their implications (Max Bo)

https://observablehq.com/@mjbo/perceptually-uniform-color-models

FilmLight

• https://www.filmlight.ltd.uk/watch/watch.php

• Growing collection of videos on various aspects of digital colour technology in cinema

The history and science of color film: From Isaac Newton to the Coen Brothers (Filmmaker IQ)

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRheZ_MUYiY

• Good detailed discussion of history of colour technology in cinema (following a very muddled account of Young, Helmholtz and Maxwell!).

Billmeyer, Fred W., Principles of color technology (1981)*

• https://archive.org/details/principlesofcolo0000bill 

The Pointer's gamut (Kid Jansen)

• https://www.tftcentral.co.uk/articles/pointers_gamut.htm 

• The coverage, in terms of chromaticity, of real surface colors by RGB color spaces and wide gamut displays.

 Applied color theory in Photoshop (Dan Margulis) 

• https://groups.io/g/colortheory 

• Discussion group

The first ten years of Photoshop (Jeff Schewe)

• http://www.schewephoto.com/pei/pshistory.pdf

*Titles marked with an asterisk were published between twenty-five to one hundred years ago and are available to read online for an hour at a time or be borrowed (subject to a wait list) for 14 days, but can not be downloaded.