On: Web color is still broken

[leeoniya]

> There are some more complex color spaces that do try to be the best of everything here, but I’m not aware of any browser or OS providing support for working with these perceptual color spaces.

OKLab and OKLCH coming soon to CSS4 near you:

https://www.w3.org/TR/css-color-4/#resolving-oklab-oklch-val...

[gsnedders → leeoniya]

It's already shipping in Safari 15.4!

Note this is a part of what the "Color Spaces and Functions" area of Interop 2022 (https://webkit.org/blog/12288/working-together-on-interop-20...) contains. See https://wpt.fyi/interop-2022?feature=interop-2022-color for the current status.

[mtklein → leeoniya]

Oh that’s amazing! OKLab looks really good to me!

[leeoniya → mtklein]

an interactive comparison also here: https://raphlinus.github.io/color/2021/01/18/oklab-critique....

[jansan → leeoniya]

OKLab is great. AFAIK even Photoshop uses OKLab to interpolate gradients.

[aaaaaaaaaaab → jansan]

See: https://mobile.twitter.com/bjornornorn/status/14530696810828...

[leeoniya → aaaaaaaaaaab]

well, that was fast :)