Color plays a crucial role in things we use and buy, and for those who design items like these for a living, ensuring color is accurately applied and displayed is a key aspect of their work. With most of the steps in the design process now being executed digitally, designers are relying more heavily on their computers and monitors to guarantee the accurate display of colors. In order to ensure the highest level of color accuracy, designers have to first familiarize themselves with a tiny set of data called ICC Profile, which plays a small yet decisive role in the design process.

To further satisfy designers’ needs for efficiency and productivity, several transmission protocols have been introduced in recent years. Among them, Thunderbolt 3 and USB 3.1 Gen2 Type C often create confusion among end users. So what are the differences between these two transmission cables?

How do We Define ‘Accurate’ Colour? How we could quantify colour in an ‘accurate’ fashion? Before jumping into this topic, let’s talk why the quantification of colour is important…

There are two types of cells in the retina of our eye that are responsible for our perception of colour: rods and cones. Cones, which are sensitive to colour, function best in bright light. They exist in three forms.

Designers such as graphic designers, multimedia designers, web designers and other creative professionals who create visual concepts by using computer software need colour management. Colour management can help them to communicate more effectively.

Colour management is the process by which colour standards and hardware/software calibration devices are used to reduce the colour differences between devices, so colours are reproduced accurately.

It is a common misconception that all electronics should exhibit the same colours, especially with devices with the same make and model. The monitors do not need to be the same make and same model, but for illustration purposes, we used four identical monitor images.