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INTERVIEW WITH BJÖRN OTTOSSON, CREATOR OF THE OKLAB COLOR SPACE

smashingmagazine.com10 min read

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Oklab is a perceptual color space designed to better align with human color perception. This interview with Björn Ottosson, the Swedish engineer who created Oklab, explores how it addresses limitations in traditional color spaces like sRGB and Lab and how it gained widespread adoption in browsers and tools such as Photoshop and CSS.