The International Color Consortium (ICC) was created in 1993. Its purpose is to make an open color system for devices, operating systems, and documents. An ICC file contains color settings. It allows ...
The International Color Consortium (ICC) was created in 1993. Its purpose is to make an open color system for devices, operating systems, and documents. An ICC file contains color settings. It allows color consistency between hardware devices, operating systems and environments.
An ICC file is a small binary file. It has color space and adjustment data for a device. There are other ICC file extensions besides .icc. These include .pf and .icm. In Windows, color profiles are in \Windows\System32\Spool\Drivers\Color\.
ICC files store color settings for ICC profiles. Other programs besides ICC can open ICC files. Operating systems have ICC profile support. This allows users to move profiles between systems.
ICC files describe color mapping between devices. This defines consistency between sources, targets and connections. ICC acceptance allows transparent color data transfer. Users can move images with profiles between operating systems.
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