
Designing an Inclusive Skin Tone Color Space
A math-driven approach to creating a simplified, inclusive color space for human skin tones using PCA and spherical mapping.
Color pipelines, color spaces, HDR, ACES, wide-gamut workflows, display calibration, and color science in digital media production.

A math-driven approach to creating a simplified, inclusive color space for human skin tones using PCA and spherical mapping.

Michiyo Yasuda was the master colorist whose sophisticated use of naturalistic tones and custom paints created the iconic, realistic look of Studio Ghibli's legendary films.

The author details the creation of a color palette extractor that uses OKLCH-based clustering and perceptual merging rules to generate human-feeling palettes from images.
DaVinci Resolve now offers its advanced Hollywood color grading and AI toolset to photographers through a dedicated, high-performance Photo page.
Okmain is a color extraction library that uses Oklab clustering and spatial weighting to find the most visually representative colors in an image.
A production-focused Blender 5.0 brings native HDR ACES color, faster and smarter rendering, and a modernized Sequencer and workflow stack across the app.

A browsable, open-source visual tool to explore how named color palettes distribute across many color spaces and datasets.