Recommended Color Profiles

The colors that are presented in the web are based on the maximum capacity that most machines can display. Currently, most monitors and video cards display at most 32 bit color and that means 4,294,967,296 colors are displayed, varying from Reds to Violets (Hues), Saturation or Intensity of a Color, and its Darkness or Lightness. Still, with these numbers of colors a display can offer, the web still considers colors that are safe, just like in printing a color should be part in a gamut or in range of colors that is available for printing. If one still uses colors that are not web ‘safe’, a display will do its best to show the color to its nearest available ‘safe’ color. The discrepancy between the two colors if we should try to consider is unnoticeable to slight noticeable. But if you are the one who values color to be displayed that must be accurate to be shown in the web, then he should consider the colors he choose to be ‘safe’.


COLOR SYSTEMS
There are color systems that you may consider. These color systems may guide you in designing and create harmonious colors that you will implement in the design. These color systems include RGB (Red-Green-Blue), CYMK (Cyan-Yellow-Magenta-BlacK), HSV (Hue-Saturation-Value), HSL (Hue-Saturation-Lightness).

RGB

The RGB color systems are mostly implemented in designing software, since most monitors (LCDs and CRTs) used RGB color system in displaying colors. Most designs are not usually to publish but to display on the web, so they may refer to the RGB color system to accurately display designs through web.

CYMK

CYMK color profile is usually followed by someone who will implement it to publish. CYMK which stands Cyan-Yellow-Magenta-Black are the four-color printing on most printing presses and on their printers’ ink. Compared to RGB, CYMK is hard to display the accurate color. CYMK technique used toning in producing intermediate colors, not just compared to RGB which uses mixing.

HSV and HSL

HSV and HSL are somewhat derivatives of RGB (Hues) with added Saturation, Value and Lightness. The difference between them is that Value is the transformation of color to darkness (black), and Lightness is the transformation of the color to white. This is implemented since most designers consider Saturation, Value and Lightness in their designs. It is easy for the designers to use them to get the accurate color they needed.

Implementation of colors in Editing Software

Most editing software uses these most color profiles, and employs and represent them in an intuitive way. Editing Software, now, are flexible to the needs of the users. The designers of the software already know what their users needed, it’s either their users are desktop publishers or web designers. In saving in the file in an original file types, it is easy for the software to read their color profiles since it is embedded in the software for converting them to other profiles.
Whenever you have any designs to implement, you do not need to worry what color profiles to be used. The only thing to keep in mind is that the final output must be in their respective color profiles if you want accurate colors (or not! Since the difference may not be too visible if you weren’t following). But it is recommended to follow these ruling to aid yourself and others get what their wanted.