# A Perceptual Color Space for Image Processing

Canonical URL: https://colorcurio.us/library/oklab-color-space
Source type: Library entry
Resource URL: https://bottosson.github.io/posts/oklab/
Added: 2024-01-03

## Summary

The post introducing OKLab: where CIELAB’s hue and lightness slip, and the transform that fixes them.

Short, readable, and the reason CSS now has oklch().

- Resource: [A Perceptual Color Space for Image Processing](https://bottosson.github.io/posts/oklab/)
- By: Björn Ottosson
- Published: 2020
- Kind: writing (article)
- Level: advanced
- Tags: color-spaces, perception, oklab, cielab, developer, scientist, research

## In collections

- [Foundational Reading](https://colorcurio.us/library/collections/foundational-reading)
- [The OKLCh Ecosystem](https://colorcurio.us/library/collections/oklch-ecosystem)

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