Design Nomenclature / Color
Display P3
Also called P3, DCI-P3 D65
- Color
- Digital Model Making
- 2D & 3D
Apple's display space: DCI-P3's primaries carrying sRGB's D65 white point and transfer curve. Roughly twenty-five percent more volume than sRGB, nearly all of it in the reds and greens, and the default panel on most current laptops and phones. Colors specified in it clip visibly where a viewer's display cannot reach them.
Not to be confused with
- sRGBThe 1996 HP and Microsoft standard, written to describe a typical CRT and still the default assumption of the untagged web. Its gamut is small — it cannot reach a saturated cyan or a traffic-cone orange — but ubiquity made it the floor everything else gets measured against.
- Rec. 2020The ITU's ultra-high-definition space, with primaries sitting on the spectral locus itself. No real display reaches them, and that is deliberate — the container was sized for hardware that did not exist yet. Encoding into it is routine; mastering happens inside a P3 sub-volume and rides in the larger container.