Gamut

A gamut is the range of colors a color space or device can represent — picture a triangle inside the horseshoe of visible color, where a bigger triangle holds more saturated, more extreme hues. Rec.709 is a fairly small gamut; DCI-P3 is larger; camera “wide gamut” spaces and working spaces like DaVinci Wide Gamut are larger still. Gamut is one of the two independent halves of a color space; the other is the transfer function. Your display’s gamut can be the bottleneck: colors outside it can’t be shown accurately.

First used in: 2.1 · Color spaces & camera log