Colors of Our World

Today, there are dozens of members in the Consortium, and the ICC profile has become the unchallenged standard for digitally describing the precise attributes of color. (Visit www.color.org for more information about the ICC and the ICC profile.)

Beyond the ICC profile, there are a number of other industry standards important to color communication and primarily employed by software and hardware manufacturers. These are documents published by the American National Standards Institute, Committee for Graphic Arts Technical Standards (ANSI CGATS), such as CGATS.4-1993, which details the terminology, equations, image elements, and procedures for measuring reflection densito-metry.