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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😍 Are they accessible?
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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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Unsurprisingly, Twitter removed the color profile on that PNG. If you have an iPhone 7 or above you can click through to view the original in full gamut here: andymatuschak.org/images/p3/9.png
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It is! If you take a loupe to it or compare to pure black you’ll see subtle colors. I’m working on clearer visualizations.
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Ah, so the shape is: imagine drawing a standard HSL color wheel (in P3 space) for lightness at 9/255. Now remove all the colors in the wheel which old displays can show. The remaining piece shows the colors which only P3 displays can render. Neat to see the “shape.”
e.g. Here’s the shape for lightness of 250/255:
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