The v4 ICC specification is widely used and is referred to in many International and other de-facto standards. It was first approved as an International Standard, ISO 15076-1, in 2005 and revised in 2010.
The current version of the specification is Version 4.4. Color management products are now mostly v4 compatible, and vendors are strongly urged to upgrade their products to be compatible with the v4 specification and its Perceptual Reference Medium Gamut. The Profile Specifications menu above provides links to documents and resources on the v4 specification, including a summary of the main advantages of the v4 specification, and the reasons to use v4profiles in colour workflows.
The v2 specification is still supported and recommendations on making v2 profiles that can interoperate in v4 workflows are documented in our technical notes.
Profile creation software that will produce profiles that conform to v4 are listed in the Profiling Tools page, and applications that will utilize them are widely available.
The ICC is actively working to make the ICC specification more useful to the various constituencies that have adopted ICC workflows.
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Joining the ICC offers members a direct role in shaping the ongoing development of the ICC Profile Format Specification. With access to five active working groups, members can influence upcoming changes and contribute to advancing color imaging and open, vendor-neutral, cross-platform color management across the industry.
Membership also provides valuable networking opportunities with leading experts across color science, digital imaging, and related fields. In addition, companies gain public recognition through a listing on the ICC website, boosting their visibility as contributors to the global advancement of color management standards.
The iccDEV project provides an open source set of libraries and tools that allow for the interaction, manipulation, and application of ICC based color management profiles based on the ICC profile specification and iccMAX profile specification.
