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Gamut - Glossary | MDN 1/3 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Gamut reference web, html, css, javascript, documentation 2026-05-05T05:32:22.616699+00:00 kb-cron

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Gamut

A color gamut is a subset of colors, usually representing the colors that a display or a printing device can represent. No display or printer can represent the whole range of colors that a human eye can perceive. The device gamut represents the set that it supports. Traditionally, in web development, the only gamut used was sRGB (Standard Red-Green-Blue), where each color is described using three bytes, one for each primary color. However, "wide-color" monitors and professional printers support a wider range of colors, that can't be represented using this gamut. Since 2021, browsers have started to provide functionality for other gamuts, like Display-P3 , widely used in the movie industry, and rec2020. Developers can define different sets of colors for devices supporting larger gamuts using the color-gamut media feature. They can describe colors outside the RGB gamut using specific CSS functions like lch() for the LCH cylindrical coordinate system, or lab() for the Lab coordinate system.

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