Display P3

Display P3 is a wide-gamut RGB colour space introduced by Apple in 2015. It uses the same red and blue primaries as DCI-P3 (the cinema-projection standard from 2007) but Apple’s own white point and gamma. Compared to sRGB, P3 covers ~25% more colour volume — most of the extra is in saturated reds and greens.

Apple ships every Mac and iPhone display from 2017+ with P3-class panels. Other vendors have followed; most premium Android phones, mid-range and high-end monitors, and all OLED TVs reach P3 or beyond.

CSS Color Module Level 4 supports P3 via the color() function: color(display-p3 1 0.4 0.2). The same colour expressed in sRGB would clip — the bright saturated orange doesn’t exist in sRGB. Browsers that support both will render the P3 version on P3-capable displays and fall back gracefully on others.

Convertitive’s color converters currently work in sRGB only. P3 support is on the roadmap.