Design Nomenclature / Color
Rec. 2020
Also called BT.2020, Rec2020, UHDTV
This entry has not been translated yet and is shown in English.
The ITU's ultra-high-definition space, with primaries sitting on the spectral locus itself. No real display reaches them, and that is deliberate — the container was sized for hardware that did not exist yet. Encoding into it is routine; mastering happens inside a P3 sub-volume and rides in the larger container.
Not to be confused with
- Display P3Apple's display space: DCI-P3's primaries carrying sRGB's D65 white point and transfer curve. Roughly twenty-five percent more volume than sRGB, nearly all of it in the reds and greens, and the default panel on most current laptops and phones. Colors specified in it clip visibly where a viewer's display cannot reach them.
- sRGBThe 1996 HP and Microsoft standard, written to describe a typical CRT and still the default assumption of the untagged web. Its gamut is small — it cannot reach a saturated cyan or a traffic-cone orange — but ubiquity made it the floor everything else gets measured against.