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Table visualization of the information from the Motivation and derivation of Oklab section of https://bottosson.github.io/posts/oklab/:
| Color Space | Opponent Model | Predicts L/C/H Well | Good Blending | D65 Whitepoint | Good Numerical Behavior | Assumes Normal Viewing Conditions | Scale Invariant | Notes |
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| CIELAB | Yes | Poor, especially hue | Not mentioned | Yes | Some issues | Yes | Yes | Poor hue prediction, especially for blues |
| CIELUV | Yes | Poor, especially hue | Not mentioned | Yes | Some issues | Yes | Yes | Similar issues as CIELAB |
| CAM16-UCS | Yes | Good | No, due to chroma compression | Yes | No | No | No | Best perceptual uniformity overall |
| CIECAM02-UCS | Yes | Good | No, due to chroma compression | Yes | No | No | No | Older version of CAM16-UCS |
| OSA-UCS | Yes | Good | Not mentioned | Yes | No analytical inverse | Yes | Yes | Good model, but impractical due to inverse |
| IPT | Yes | Poor lightness/chroma | Good | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Simple structure; strong hue modeling |
| JzAzBz | Yes | Fairly good | Not mentioned | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not scale-invariant | HDR-optimized; scale-dependent |
| HSV (sRGB) | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Included due to popularity only |
| Oklab | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Designed to meet all listed criteria |
