Improving Color on the Web
People who focus on color profile support in a world where all colors are compressed to 8 bits per channel with a nonlinear gamma curve are obsessing about the wrong problems. I notice banding artifacts (caused by quantization to 8 bits) and blending issues (caused by linear blending of nonlinear values) <i>way</i> more often than I notice anything related to color gamuts.<p>People who care about color should be pushing to change the default color representation to a linear format with 16 bits per channel rather than making marginal changes to the edges of 8 bits per channel gamma compressed representations.<p>That has to start with the addition of 16 bit floating point format support to various hardware. It's really a crying shame that so little hardware supports 16 bit floating point. In addition to imaging it would be useful for audio, and deep learning too.