On Monday, February 13, 2012, 12:05:11 AM, Graeme wrote: GG> Pascal de Bruijn wrote: >> XYZ = 1.231303 1.000000 0.023474, x,y = 0.546086 0.443503 >> D50 L*a*b* = 100.000000 42.461990 138.939711 GG> This is a rather saturated color (139) If I am reading the ICC specifications correctly, in both v.2 and v.4 a* and b* are encoded in the range 127 .. -128. So an ICC profile can't even store that color. It will need to be gamut mapped (preferably) or will be clipped (changing the hue) to bring it into the range of the encoding. -- Chris Lilley Technical Director, Interaction Domain W3C Graphics Activity Lead, Fonts Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG Member, CSS, WebFonts, SVG Working Groups