| International Color Consortium | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | ICC |
| Motto | Making color seamless between devices and documents |
| Formation | 1993 |
| Type | Consortium |
| Purpose/focus | Promote the use and adoption of open, vendor-neutral, cross-platform color management systems. |
| Headquarters | Reston, United States |
| Region served | Worldwide |
| Co-Chairs | William Li (Kodak), Tom Lianza (X-Rite) |
| Key people | Kip Smythe (Secretary), Phil Green (Technical Secretary) |
| Website | International Color Consortium |
The International Color Consortium was formed in 1993 by eight industry vendors in order to create an open, vendor-neutral color management system which would function transparently across all operating systems and software packages.
The ICC specification, currently on version 4.3,[1] allows for matching of color when moved between applications and operating systems, from the point of creation to the final output, whether display or print. This specification is technically identical to ISO 15076-1:2010, available from ISO.
The ICC profile which describe the color attributes of a particular device or viewing requirement by defining a mapping between the source or target color space and a profile connection space (PCS).
The ICC defines the format precisely but does not define algorithms or processing details. This means there is room for variation between different applications and systems that work with ICC profiles.
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The eight founding members of the ICC were Adobe, Agfa, Apple, Kodak, Microsoft, Silicon Graphics, Sun Microsystems, and Taligent.
Since then Sun Microsystems, Silicon Graphics, and Taligent have left the organization, and many other firms have become ICC members, including, as of January 2011[update], Canon, Fuji, Fujitsu, Hewlett–Packard, Lexmark, Sun Chemical, and X-Rite.[2]