International Color Consortium

The International Color Consortium (ICC) was founded in 1993 by Apple and seven other vendors to create a color management solution that would deliver consistent color between applications. It continues to promote the use and adoption of open, vendor-neutral, cross-platform color management systems.

Members

ICC is supported by over 70 manufacturers and developers. Its list of members reads like a who's who of the graphic arts industry, with names like Fujifilm Corporation, Nikon, Nokia, Canon Development Americas, Seiko EPSON Corporation, Sharp Laboratories of America, and Sony Corporation. Any major corporation with products that demand accurate color needs to be closely involved with ICC.

Resources

The ICC is probably the best online resource for technical information about color and color management. ICC White Papers include PDFs on "Recommendations for colour measurement," "Digital photography color management basics," and "Using ICC profiles with digital camera images," among many others.

ICC home page


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