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Serious question: will terminals ever support P3 color? Maybe that's too much to ask for?

https://webkit.org/blog/6682/improving-color-on-the-web/ https://webkit.org/blog-files/color-gamut/comparison.html

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Why P3? It is better to go directly to Rec. 2100 with HDR which is more future-proof.

It only improves images, no?

It's a wider color space. It improves the color range of everything, assuming the source hasn't been flattened to SRGB.

Well, yes, but what are the benefits for text over 24-bit colour? To have two even less different shades of a colour adjacent to each other? For images there's a very clear benefit, but for a text frame buffer I'd say not so much.

See my comment above: it would allow more precise specification of a color by avoiding the need of indexing an implementation-dependent palette.

citrusui originally asked about DCI-P3 color space, ygra then confused this wider color space with higher bit-depth. Now you want to further confuse everyone by referring to your comment about advantages of 24-bit RGB over paletted colors which is completely irrelevant to the original comment about DCI-P3 color space. DCI-P3 contains colors which are outside of the gamut representable by the 24-bit RGB (which uses sRGB color space).

Sorry, it wasn't my intention to hurt you with my comment.

No problem :)

What you are talking about is bit-depth which is not related to color spaces (although for wider color spaces you need higher bit-depth to avoid banding).

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