ICC profile
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ICC profile is a standard format for color management information. It may appear in a file by itself, or embedded in certain graphics file formats.
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Format
An ICC profile has a 128-byte header, followed by an index ("tag table") with a variable number of entries, followed by a data section containing items pointed to by the index.
Related formats
Many graphics-related formats can contain embedded ICC profiles. This is a partial list.
- In a TIFF file, tag 34675 is used for ICC profiles. See the ICC profile specification for details.
- In a JPEG file, an APP2 marker with an identifier of "ICC_PROFILE" is used for ICC profiles. See the ICC profile specification for details. Note that large ICC profiles must be split up, to accommodate JPEG's 64KB segment size limit.
- In a PNG file, chunk type iCCP contains an ICC profile. See the PNG specification for details.
- In a GIF file, an ICC profile uses application identifier "ICCRGBG1012".
- In Photoshop Image Resources metadata, an ICC profile uses Resource ID 0x040F.
Specifications
"V4" family
- ICC.1:2010-12 (Version 4.3.0.0)
- ICC.1:2004-10 (Version 4.2.0.0) with errata incorporated, 2006-05-22
- ICC.1:2004-10 (Version 4.2.0.0)
- ICC.1:2004-04
- ICC.1:2003-09 (Version 4.1.0)
- ICC.1:2001-12 (Version 4.0.0)
"V2" family
In this family, the specification version is different from the profile version (a number stored in the ICC profile data).
- ICC.1:2001-04; profile version 2.4.0
- ICC.1A:1999-04: Addendum 2 to ICC.1:1998-09; profile version 2.2.0 or 2.3.0
- ICC.1:1998-09; profile version 2.2.0
- Version 3.4 (1997-08-15); profile version 2.1.0
- Version 3.3 (1996-11-11); profile version 2.1.0
- Version 3.2 (1995-11-20); profile version 2.0.0
- Version 3.01 (1995-05-08); profile version 2.0.0
- Version 3.0 (1994-06-10); profile version 2.0.0
