Color space

A color space is a specific organization of colors. In combination with color profiling supported by various physical devices, it supports reproducible representations of color – whether such representation entails an analog or a digital representation. A color space may be arbitrary, i.

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with physically realized colors assigned to a set of physical color swatches with corresponding assigned color names, or structured with mathematical rigor.
A "color space" is a useful conceptual tool for understanding the color capabilities of a particular device or digital file.

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