Colour management is ubiquitous in the digital world. However, despite the many advances in colour management over the last couple of decades, it remains an imperfect process. In the art and design community there is often a level of dissatisfaction and deep cynicism about colour management that can lead to lac of engagement with the process. This research explores colour management in a design context though three issues: the gamut issue, the intuitive issue and the engagement issue; each relates to areas where colour management could better connect with tacit design knowhow. The work focusses on the selection of colour in a digital context since for many users this is the first touch point that they have with colour management. Psychophysical studies have been carried out in both laboratory and design‐studio settings. It is shown that users can better predict the results from subtractive colour mixing than from additive colour mixing. The performance of various types of colour picker are explored and consequences for the design of user interfaces are discussed.

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色域、直觉和参与在设计环境中的色彩管理中的作用

色彩管理在数字世界中无处不在。然而，尽管在过去的几十年里色彩管理取得了许多进步，但它仍然是一个不完美的过程。在艺术和设计界，通常对色彩管理存在一定程度的不满和深深的愤世嫉俗，这可能导致对流程的参与不足。本研究通过三个问题探索设计环境中的色彩管理：色域问题、直觉问题和参与问题；每个都与色彩管理可以更好地与隐性设计知识联系起来的领域有关。这项工作的重点是在数字环境中选择颜色，因为对于许多用户来说，这是他们与颜色管理的第一个接触点。心理物理学研究已在实验室和设计工作室环境中进行。结果表明，用户可以更好地预测减色混合的结果，而不是加色混合的结果。探讨了各种类型的颜色选择器的性能，并讨论了对用户界面设计的影响。