100% Saturated Gradient, sRGB

Same ramp in Adobe RGB as seen as on the Internet.
Note especially dead reds and violets.

INTRODUCTION

The same old-wives-tale about Adobe RGB having a broader range of colors has been circulating on the internet since the 1990s.

It does in theory, but not in practice.

I know this stuff. Did you know I conceived the world’s first dedicated digital colorspace converter chip, the TMC2272, back in 1990 when I worked at TRW LSI Products? I’ve been working with the matrix math, hardware and software that does this for decades. I also coined the word “gigacolors,” for use with 36-bit and 48-bit color data. I was only kidding, but the word is still used. TRW LSI was a small, ultra-creative division of TRW, and I got away putting the same mirth I use on this website into the datasheets I wrote. The industry copied us and the word lives on. Read more »