SRGB color space

sRGB is the standard RGB color space created cooperatively by HP and Microsoft in 1996 for use on monitors, printers and the Internet, and subsequently standardized by the IEC as IEC 61966-2-1:1999.

sRGB uses the ITU-R BT.709 primaries, the same as are used in studio monitors and HDTV, and a transfer function (gamma curve) typical of CRTs. This specification allowed sRGB to be directly displayed on typical CRT monitors of the time, a factor which greatly aided its acceptance.

The sRGB color space has been endorsed by the W3C, Exif, Intel, Pantone, Corel, and many other industry players. It is used in proprietary and open graphics file formats, such as SVG.

The sRGB color space is well specified and is designed to match typical home and office viewing conditions, rather than the darker environment typically used for commercial color matching.

Much software is now designed with the assumption that an 8-bit-per-channel image placed unchanged onto an 8-bit-per-channel display will appear much as the sRGB specification recommends. LCDs, digital cameras, printers, and scanners all follow the sRGB standard. Devices which do not naturally follow sRGB (such as older CRT monitors) include compensating circuitry or software so that, in the end, they also obey this standard. For this reason, one can generally assume, in the absence of embedded profiles or any other information, that any 8-bit-per-channel image file or any 8-bit-per-channel image API or device interface can be treated as being in the sRGB color space. However, when the correct displaying of an RGB color space is needed, color management usually must be employed.

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