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[css-color-4] Introduce the term colorspaces in the introduction
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<em>This section is not normative.</em>
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This module describes CSS properties which allow authors to specify the foreground color and opacity of the text content of an element.
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This module describes CSS properties which
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allow authors to specify
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the foreground color and opacity of the text content of an element.
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This module also describes in detail the CSS <<color>> value type.
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and <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/css-color-3/">CSS Color 3</a>,
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but also defines new properties and values.
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In particular, it allows specifying colors
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in other 'colorspaces' than sRGB;
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previously, the more saturated colors ouside the sRGB gamut
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could not be used in CSS
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even if the display device supported them.
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In addition to the family of
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<abbr title="red-green-blue">RGB</abbr> colorspaces,
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'colorspaces' with other primaries
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such as <abbr title="cyan-magenta-yellow-black">CMYK</abbr> or
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<abbr title="cyan-magenta-yellow-green-orange-violet-black">CMYGOVK</abbr>
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are supported.
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<h2 id="the-color-property">
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Foreground Color: the 'color' property</h2>

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