Process shot. I've been playing with interactive visualizations of the wide gamut color spaces available on newer screens (>= iPhone 7). It's amazing how many super punchy vivid colors are suddenly available, but I haven't seen them obviously used in screen design!
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Given the present trend toward ultra-saturated colors, I'm surprised more folks haven't tried designing "wide gamut first," with fallback variant designs for traditional sRGB displays. Feels like the early Retina days, except with way slower adoption.
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Depends on exactly the context you're trying to use 'em. But, say, the max-brightness ones vs white text? Probably not. I was surprised to see that these wide gamut screens also add a lot of new rich blacks. Here's the part of the color wheel only available wide-gamut at l=9/255:
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I'm suddenly interested in one of those displays. I still don't want to have a bigger phone than the iPhone SE 😕
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I just made a color picker with Lab mode 😃 itunes.apple.com/au/app/imbue-c
Shows ‘wide color’ on the left, sRGB on the right. (Probably won’t show up properly on Twitter)
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I’m wanting to make more tools in this space — the app above is open source too github.com/RoyalIcing/Imb