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Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 (Second Edition) 1 Introduction 1.1 About SVG 1.2 SVG MIME type 1.3 SVG Namespace 1.4 Compatibility with Other Standards Efforts 1.5 Terminology 1.6 Definitions 2 Concepts 2.1 Explaining the name: SVG 2.2 Important SVG concepts 2.3 Options for using SVG in Web pages 3 Rendering Model 3.1 Introduction 3.2 The painters model 3.3 Rendering Order 3.4 How groups are rendered 3.5 How elements are rendered 3.6 Types of graphics elements 3.6.1 Painting shapes and text 3.6.2 Painting raster images 3.7 Filtering painted regions 3.8 Clipping 3.9 Parent Compositing 4 Basic Data Types and Interfaces 4.1 Syntax 4.2 Basic data types 4.3 Real number precision 4.4 Recognized color keyword names 4.5 Basic DOM interfaces 4.5.1 Interface SVGElement 4.5.2 Interface SVGAnimatedBoolean 4.5.3 Interface SVGAnimatedString 4.5.4 Interface SVGStringList 4.5.5 Interface SVGAnimatedEnumeration 4.5.6 Interface SVGAnimatedInteger 4.5.7 Interface SVGNumber 4.5.8 Interface SVGAnimatedNumber 4.5.9 Interface SVGNumberList 4.5.10 Interface SVGAnimatedNumberList 4.5.11 Interface SVGLength 4.5.12 Interface SVGAnimatedLength 4.5.13 Interface SVGLengthList 4.5.14 Interface SVGAnimatedLengthList 4.5.15 Interface SVGAngle 4.5.16 Interface SVGAnimatedAngle 4.5.17 Interface SVGColor 4.5.18 Interface SVGICCColor 4.5.19 Interface SVGRect 4.5.20 Interface SVGAnimatedRect 4.5.21 Interface SVGUnitTypes 4.5.22 Interface SVGStylable 4.5.23 Interface SVGLocatable 4.5.24 Interface SVGTransformable 4.5.25 Interface SVGTests 4.5.26 Interface SVGLangSpace 4.5.27 Interface SVGExternalResourcesRequired 4.5.28 Interface SVGFitToViewBox 4.5.29 Interface SVGZoomAndPan 4.5.30 Interface SVGViewSpec 4.5.31 Interface SVGURIReference 4.5.32 Interface SVGCSSRule 4.5.33 Interface SVGRenderingIntent 5 Document Structure 5.1 Defining an SVG document fragment: the 憇vg?element 5.1.1 Overview 5.1.2 The 憇vg?element 5.2 Grouping: the 慻?element 5.2.1 Overview 5.2.2 The 慻?element 5.3 Defining content for reuse 5.3.1 Overview 5.3.2 The 慸efs?element 5.4 The 慸esc?and 憈itle?elements 5.5 The 憇ymbol?element 5.6 The 憉se?element 5.7 The 慽mage?element 5.8 Conditional processing 5.8.1 Conditional processing overview 5.8.2 The 憇witch?element 5.8.3 The 憆equiredFeatures?attribute 5.8.4 The 憆equiredExtensions?attribute 5.8.5 The 憇ystemLanguage?attribute 5.8.6 Applicability of test attributes 5.9 Specifying whether external resources are required for proper rendering 5.10 Common attributes 5.10.1 Attributes common to all elements: 慽d?and 憍ml:base? 5.10.2 The 憍ml:lang?and 憍ml:space?attributes 5.11 DOM interfaces 5.11.1 Interface SVGDocument 5.11.2 Interface SVGSVGElement 5.11.3 Interface SVGGElement 5.11.4 Interface SVGDefsElement 5.11.5 Interface SVGDescElement 5.11.6 Interface SVGTitleElement 5.11.7 Interface SVGSymbolElement 5.11.8 Interface SVGUseElement 5.11.9 Interface SVGElementInstance 5.11.10 Interface SVGElementInstanceList 5.11.11 Interface SVGImageElement 5.11.12 Interface SVGSwitchElement 5.11.13 Interface GetSVGDocument 6 Styling 6.1 SVG's styling properties 6.2 Usage scenarios for styling 6.3 Alternative ways to specify styling properties 6.4 Specifying properties using the presentation attributes 6.5 Styling with XSL 6.6 Styling with CSS 6.7 Case sensitivity of property names and values 6.8 Facilities from CSS and XSL used by SVG 6.9 Referencing external style sheets 6.10 The 憇tyle?element 6.11 The 慶lass?attribute 6.12 The 憇tyle?attribute 6.13 Specifying the default style sheet language 6.14 Property inheritance 6.15 The scope/range of styles 6.16 User agent style sheet 6.17 Aural style sheets 6.18 DOM interfaces 6.18.1 Interface SVGStyleElement 7 Coordinate Systems 7.1 Introduction 7.2 The initial viewport 7.3 The initial coordinate system 7.4 Coordinate system transformations 7.5 Nested transformations 7.6 The 憈ransform?attribute 7.7 The 憊iewBox?attribute 7.8 The 憄reserveAspectRatio?attribute 7.9 Establishing a new viewport 7.10 Units 7.11 Object bounding box units 7.12 Intrinsic sizing properties of the viewport of SVG content 7.13 Geographic coordinate systems 7.14 The 憇vg:transform?attribute 7.15 DOM interfaces 7.15.1 Interface SVGPoint 7.15.2 Interface SVGPointList 7.15.3 Interface SVGMatrix 7.15.4 Interface SVGTransform 7.15.5 Interface SVGTransformList 7.15.6 Interface SVGAnimatedTransformList 7.15.7 Interface SVGPreserveAspectRatio 7.15.8 Interface SVGAnimatedPreserveAspectRatio 8 Paths 8.1 Introduction 8.2 The 憄ath?element 8.3 Path data 8.3.1 General information about path data 8.3.2 The "moveto" commands 8.3.3 The "closepath" command 8.3.4 The "lineto" commands 8.3.5 The curve commands 8.3.6 The cubic B閦ier curve commands 8.3.7 The quadratic B閦ier curve commands 8.3.8 The elliptical arc curve commands 8.3.9 The grammar for path data 8.4 Distance along a path 8.5 DOM interfaces 8.5.1 Interface SVGPathSeg 8.5.2 Interface SVGPathSegClosePath 8.5.3 Interface SVGPathSegMovetoAbs 8.5.4 Interface SVGPathSegMovetoRel 8.5.5 Interface SVGPathSegLinetoAbs 8.5.6 Interface SVGPathSegLinetoRel 8.5.7 Interface SVGPathSegCurvetoCubicAbs 8.5.8 Interface SVGPathSegCurvetoCubicRel 8.5.9 Interface SVGPathSegCurvetoQuadraticAbs 8.5.10 Interface SVGPathSegCurvetoQuadraticRel 8.5.11 Interface SVGPathSegArcAbs 8.5.12 Interface SVGPathSegArcRel 8.5.13 Interface SVGPathSegLinetoHorizontalAbs 8.5.14 Interface SVGPathSegLinetoHorizontalRel 8.5.15 Interface SVGPathSegLinetoVerticalAbs 8.5.16 Interface SVGPathSegLinetoVerticalRel 8.5.17 Interface SVGPathSegCurvetoCubicSmoothAbs 8.5.18 Interface SVGPathSegCurvetoCubicSmoothRel 8.5.19 Interface SVGPathSegCurvetoQuadraticSmoothAbs 8.5.20 Interface SVGPathSegCurvetoQuadraticSmoothRel 8.5.21 Interface SVGPathSegList 8.5.22 Interface SVGAnimatedPathData 8.5.23 Interface SVGPathElement 9 Basic Shapes 9.1 Introduction 9.2 The 憆ect?element 9.3 The 慶ircle?element 9.4 The 慹llipse?element 9.5 The 憀ine?element 9.6 The 憄olyline?element 9.7 The 憄olygon?element 9.7.1 The grammar for points specifications in 憄olyline?and 憄olygon?elements 9.8 DOM interfaces 9.8.1 Interface SVGRectElement 9.8.2 Interface SVGCircleElement 9.8.3 Interface SVGEllipseElement 9.8.4 Interface SVGLineElement 9.8.5 Interface SVGAnimatedPoints 9.8.6 Interface SVGPolylineElement 9.8.7 Interface SVGPolygonElement 10 Text 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Characters and their corresponding glyphs 10.3 Fonts 10.4 The 憈ext?element 10.5 The 憈span?element 10.6 The 憈ref?element 10.7 Text layout 10.7.1 Text layout introduction 10.7.2 Setting the inline-progression-direction 10.7.3 Glyph orientation within a text run 10.7.4 Relationship with bidirectionality 10.8 Text rendering order 10.9 Alignment properties 10.9.1 Text alignment properties 10.9.2 Baseline alignment properties 10.10 Font selection properties 10.11 Spacing properties 10.12 Text decoration 10.13 Text on a path 10.13.1 Introduction to text on a path 10.13.2 The 憈extPath?element 10.13.3 Text on a path layout rules 10.14 Alternate glyphs 10.14.1 The 慳ltGlyph?element 10.14.2 The 慳ltGlyphDef? 慳ltGlyphItem?and 慻lyphRef?elements 10.15 White space handling 10.16 Text selection and clipboard operations 10.17 DOM interfaces 10.17.1 Interface SVGTextContentElement 10.17.2 Interface SVGTextPositioningElement 10.17.3 Interface SVGTextElement 10.17.4 Interface SVGTSpanElement 10.17.5 Interface SVGTRefElement 10.17.6 Interface SVGTextPathElement 10.17.7 Interface SVGAltGlyphElement 10.17.8 Interface SVGAltGlyphDefElement 10.17.9 Interface SVGAltGlyphItemElement 10.17.10 Interface SVGGlyphRefElement 11 Painting: Filling 11.1 Introduction 11.2 Specifying paint 11.3 Fill Properties 11.4 Stroke Properties 11.5 Controlling visibility 11.6 Markers 11.6.1 Introduction 11.6.2 The 憁arker?element 11.6.3 Marker properties 11.6.4 Details on how markers are rendered 11.7 Rendering properties 11.7.1 Color interpolation properties: 慶olor-interpolation?and 慶olor-interpolation-filters? 11.7.2 The 慶olor-rendering?property 11.7.3 The 憇hape-rendering?property 11.7.4 The 憈ext-rendering?property 11.7.5 The 慽mage-rendering?property 11.8 Inheritance of painting properties 11.9 DOM interfaces 11.9.1 Interface SVGPaint 11.9.2 Interface SVGMarkerElement 12 Color 12.1 Introduction 12.2 The 慶olor?property 12.3 Color profile descriptions 12.3.1 Overview of color profile descriptions 12.3.2 Alternative ways of defining a color profile description 12.3.3 The 慶olor-profile?element 12.3.4 The CSS @color-profile rule 12.3.5 The 慶olor-profile?property 12.4 DOM interfaces 12.4.1 Interface SVGColorProfileElement 12.4.2 Interface SVGColorProfileRule 13 Gradients and Patterns 13.1 Introduction 13.2 Gradients 13.2.1 Introduction 13.2.2 Linear gradients 13.2.3 Radial gradients 13.2.4 Gradient stops 13.3 Patterns 13.4 DOM interfaces 13.4.1 Interface SVGGradientElement 13.4.2 Interface SVGLinearGradientElement 13.4.3 Interface SVGRadialGradientElement 13.4.4 Interface SVGStopElement 13.4.5 Interface SVGPatternElement 14 Clipping 14.1 Introduction 14.2 Simple alpha compositing 14.3 Clipping paths 14.3.1 Introduction 14.3.2 The initial clipping path 14.3.3 The 憃verflow?and 慶lip?properties 14.3.4 Clip to viewport vs. clip to 憊iewBox? 14.3.5 Establishing a new clipping path: the 慶lipPath?element 14.3.6 Clipping paths 14.4 Masking 14.5 Object and group opacity: the 憃pacity?property 14.6 DOM interfaces 14.6.1 Interface SVGClipPathElement 14.6.2 Interface SVGMaskElement 15 Filter Effects 15.1 Introduction 15.2 An example 15.3 The 慺ilter?element 15.4 The 慺ilter?property 15.5 Filter effects region 15.6 Accessing the background image 15.7 Filter primitives overview 15.7.1 Overview 15.7.2 Common attributes 15.7.3 Filter primitive subregion 15.8 Light source elements and properties 15.8.1 Introduction 15.8.2 Light source 慺eDistantLight? 15.8.3 Light source 慺ePointLight? 15.8.4 Light source 慺eSpotLight? 15.8.5 The 憀ighting-color?property 15.9 Filter primitive 慺eBlend? 15.10 Filter primitive 慺eColorMatrix? 15.11 Filter primitive 慺eComponentTransfer? 15.12 Filter primitive 慺eComposite? 15.13 Filter primitive 慺eConvolveMatrix? 15.14 Filter primitive 慺eDiffuseLighting? 15.15 Filter primitive 慺eDisplacementMap? 15.16 Filter primitive 慺eFlood? 15.17 Filter primitive 慺eGaussianBlur? 15.18 Filter primitive 慺eImage? 15.19 Filter primitive 慺eMerge? 15.20 Filter primitive 慺eMorphology? 15.21 Filter primitive 慺eOffset? 15.22 Filter primitive 慺eSpecularLighting? 15.23 Filter primitive 慺eTile? 15.24 Filter primitive 慺eTurbulence? 15.25 DOM interfaces 15.25.1 Interface SVGFilterElement 15.25.2 Interface SVGFilterPrimitiveStandardAttributes 15.25.3 Interface SVGFEBlendElement 15.25.4 Interface SVGFEColorMatrixElement 15.25.5 Interface SVGFEComponentTransferElement 15.25.6 Interface SVGComponentTransferFunctionElement 15.25.7 Interface SVGFEFuncRElement 15.25.8 Interface SVGFEFuncGElement 15.25.9 Interface SVGFEFuncBElement 15.25.10 Interface SVGFEFuncAElement 15.25.11 Interface SVGFECompositeElement 15.25.12 Interface SVGFEConvolveMatrixElement 15.25.13 Interface SVGFEDiffuseLightingElement 15.25.14 Interface SVGFEDistantLightElement 15.25.15 Interface SVGFEPointLightElement 15.25.16 Interface SVGFESpotLightElement 15.25.17 Interface SVGFEDisplacementMapElement 15.25.18 Interface SVGFEFloodElement 15.25.19 Interface SVGFEGaussianBlurElement 15.25.20 Interface SVGFEImageElement 15.25.21 Interface SVGFEMergeElement 15.25.22 Interface SVGFEMergeNodeElement 15.25.23 Interface SVGFEMorphologyElement 15.25.24 Interface SVGFEOffsetElement 15.25.25 Interface SVGFESpecularLightingElement 15.25.26 Interface SVGFETileElement 15.25.27 Interface SVGFETurbulenceElement 16 Interactivity 16.1 Introduction 16.2 Complete list of supported events 16.3 User interface events 16.4 Pointer events 16.5 Hit-testing and processing order for user interface events 16.5.1 Hit-testing 16.5.2 Event processing 16.6 The 憄ointer-events?property 16.7 Magnification and panning 16.8 Cursors 16.8.1 Introduction to cursors 16.8.2 The 慶ursor?property 16.8.3 The 慶ursor?element 16.9 DOM interfaces 16.9.1 Interface SVGCursorElement 17 Linking 17.1 References 17.1.1 Overview 17.1.2 IRIs and URIs 17.1.3 Syntactic forms: IRI and FuncIRI 17.1.4 Processing of IRI references 17.1.5 IRI reference attributes 17.2 Links out of SVG content: the 慳?element 17.3 Linking into SVG content: IRI fragments and SVG views 17.3.1 Introduction: IRI fragments and SVG views 17.3.2 SVG fragment identifiers 17.3.3 Predefined views: the 憊iew?element 17.3.4 Highlighting views 17.4 DOM interfaces 17.4.1 Interface SVGAElement 17.4.2 Interface SVGViewElement 18 Scripting 18.1 Specifying the scripting language 18.1.1 Specifying the default scripting language 18.1.2 Local declaration of a scripting language 18.2 The 憇cript?element 18.3 Event handling 18.4 Event attributes 18.4.1 Event attribute for the SVGLoad event 18.4.2 Event attributes on graphics and container elements 18.4.3 Document-level event attributes 18.4.4 Animation event attributes 18.5 DOM interfaces 18.5.1 Interface SVGScriptElement 18.5.2 Interface SVGZoomEvent 19 Animation 19.1 Introduction 19.2 Animation elements 19.2.1 Overview 19.2.2 Relationship to SMIL Animation 19.2.3 Animation elements example 19.2.4 Attributes to identify the target element for an animation 19.2.5 Attributes to identify the target attribute or property for an animation 19.2.6 Animation with namespaces 19.2.7 Paced animation and complex types 19.2.8 Attributes to control the timing of the animation 19.2.8.1 Clock values 19.2.9 Attributes that define animation values over time 19.2.10 Attributes that control whether animations are additive 19.2.11 Inheritance 19.2.12 The 慳nimate?element 19.2.13 The 憇et?element 19.2.14 The 慳nimateMotion?element 19.2.15 The 慳nimateColor?element 19.2.16 The 慳nimateTransform?element 19.2.17 Elements 19.3 Animation using the SVG DOM 19.4 DOM interfaces 19.4.1 Interface ElementTimeControl 19.4.2 Interface TimeEvent 19.4.3 Interface SVGAnimationElement 19.4.4 Interface SVGAnimateElement 19.4.5 Interface SVGSetElement 19.4.6 Interface SVGAnimateMotionElement 19.4.7 Interface SVGMPathElement 19.4.8 Interface SVGAnimateColorElement 19.4.9 Interface SVGAnimateTransformElement 20 Fonts 20.1 Introduction 20.2 Overview of SVG fonts 20.3 The 慺ont?element 20.4 The 慻lyph?element 20.5 The 憁issing-glyph?element 20.6 Glyph selection rules 20.7 The 慼kern?and 憊kern?elements 20.8 Describing a font 20.8.1 Overview of font descriptions 20.8.2 Alternative ways for providing a font description 20.8.3 The 慺ont-face?element 20.8.4 The 慺ont-face-src?element 20.8.5 The 慺ont-face-uri?and 慺ont-face-format?elements 20.8.6 The 慺ont-face-name?element 20.9 DOM interfaces 20.9.1 Interface SVGFontElement 20.9.2 Interface SVGGlyphElement 20.9.3 Interface SVGMissingGlyphElement 20.9.4 Interface SVGHKernElement 20.9.5 Interface SVGVKernElement 20.9.6 Interface SVGFontFaceElement 20.9.7 Interface SVGFontFaceSrcElement 20.9.8 Interface SVGFontFaceUriElement 20.9.9 Interface SVGFontFaceFormatElement 20.9.10 Interface SVGFontFaceNameElement 21 Metadata 21.1 Introduction 21.2 The 憁etadata?element 21.3 An example 21.4 DOM interfaces 21.4.1 Interface SVGMetadataElement 22 Backwards Compatibility 23 Extensibility 23.1 Foreign namespaces and private data 23.2 Embedding foreign object types 23.3 The 慺oreignObject?element 23.4 An example 23.5 Adding private elements and attributes to the DTD 23.6 DOM interfaces 23.6.1 Interface SVGForeignObjectElement Appendix A: Document Type Definition A.1 Introduction A.2 Modularization A.2.1 Element and attribute collections A.2.2 Profiling the SVG specification A.2.3 Practical considerations A.3 SVG 1.1 module definitions and DTD implementations A.3.1 Modular Framework Module A.3.2 Datatypes Module A.3.3 Qualified Name Module A.3.4 Core Attribute Module A.3.5 Container Attribute Module A.3.6 Viewport Attribute Module A.3.7 Paint Attribute Module A.3.8 Basic Paint Attribute Module A.3.9 Paint Opacity Attribute Module A.3.10 Graphics Attribute Module A.3.11 Basic Graphics Attribute Module A.3.12 Document Events Attribute Module A.3.13 Graphical Element Events Attribute Module A.3.14 Animation Events Attribute Module A.3.15 XLink Attribute Module A.3.16 External Resources Attribute Module A.3.17 Structure Module A.3.18 Basic Structure Module A.3.19 Conditional Processing Module A.3.20 Image Module A.3.21 Style Module A.3.22 Shape Module A.3.23 Text Module A.3.24 Basic Text Module A.3.25 Marker Module A.3.26 Color Profile Module A.3.27 Gradient Module A.3.28 Pattern Module A.3.29 Clip Module A.3.30 Basic Clip Module A.3.31 Mask Module A.3.32 Filter Module A.3.33 Basic Filter Module A.3.34 Cursor Module A.3.35 Hyperlinking Module A.3.36 View Module A.3.37 Scripting Module A.3.38 Animation Module A.3.39 Font Module A.3.40 Basic Font Module A.3.41 Extensibility Module A.4 SVG 1.1 Document Type Definition A.4.1 SVG 1.1 DTD Driver A.4.2 SVG 1.1 Document Model A.4.3 SVG 1.1 Attribute Collection Appendix B: SVG Document Object Model (DOM) B.1 SVG DOM overview B.1.1 SVG DOM object initialization B.2 Elements in the SVG DOM B.3 Naming conventions B.4 Exception SVGException B.5 Feature strings for the hasFeature method call B.6 Relationship with DOM Level 2 Events B.7 Relationship with DOM Level 2 CSS B.7.1 Introduction B.7.2 User agents that do not support styling with CSS B.7.3 User agents that support styling with CSS B.7.4 Extended interfaces B.8 Read only nodes in the DOM B.9 Invalid values Appendix C: IDL Definitions Appendix D: Java Language Binding D.1 The Java language binding D.2 Using SVG with the Java language Appendix E: ECMAScript Language Binding E.1 Exceptions E.2 Constants E.3 Types E.4 Objects Appendix F: Implementation Requirements F.1 Introduction F.2 Error processing F.3 Version control F.4 Clamping values which are restricted to a particular range F.5 憄ath?element implementation notes F.6 Elliptical arc implementation notes F.6.1 Elliptical arc syntax F.6.2 Out-of-range parameters F.6.3 Parameterization alternatives F.6.4 Conversion from center to endpoint parameterization F.6.5 Conversion from endpoint to center parameterization F.6.6 Correction of out-of-range radii F.7 Text selection implementation notes F.8 Printing implementation notes Appendix G: Conformance Criteria G.1 Introduction G.2 Conforming SVG Document Fragments G.3 Conforming SVG Stand-Alone Files G.4 Conforming SVG Generators G.5 Conforming SVG Servers G.6 Conforming SVG DOM Subtree G.7 Conforming SVG Interpreters G.8 Conforming SVG Viewers Appendix H: Accessibility Support H.1 WAI Accessibility Guidelines H.2 SVG Content Accessibility Guidelines Appendix I: Internationalization Support I.1 Introduction I.2 Internationalization and SVG I.3 SVG Internationalization Guidelines Appendix J: Minimizing SVG File Sizes Appendix K: References K.1 Normative references K.2 Informative references Appendix L: Element Index Appendix M: Attribute Index M.1 Regular attributes M.2 Presentation attributes Appendix N: Property Index Appendix O: Feature Strings O.1 Introduction O.2 SVG 1.1 feature strings O.3 SVG 1.0 feature strings Appendix P: Media Type Registration for image/svg+xml P.1 Introduction P.2 Registration of media type image/svg+xml Appendix Q: Changes Check Update
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12 Color

Contents

  • 12.1 Introduction
  • 12.2 The ‘color’ property
  • 12.3 Color profile descriptions
    • 12.3.1 Overview of color profile descriptions
    • 12.3.2 Alternative ways of defining a color profile description
    • 12.3.3 The ‘color-profile’ element
    • 12.3.4 The CSS @color-profile rule
    • 12.3.5 The ‘color-profile’ property
  • 12.4 DOM interfaces
    • 12.4.1 Interface SVGColorProfileElement
    • 12.4.2 Interface SVGColorProfileRule

12.1 Introduction

All SVG colors are specified in the sRGB color space [SRGB]. At a minimum, SVG user agents shall conform to the color behavior requirements specified in the color units section and the minimal gamma correction rules defined in the CSS2 specification.

Additionally, SVG content can specify an alternate color specification using an ICC profile [ICC42] as described in Specifying paint. If ICC-based colors are provided and the SVG user agent supports ICC color, then the ICC-based color takes precedence over the sRGB color specification; otherwise, the RGB fallback colors must be used. Note that, in this specification, color interpolation occurs in an RGB color space even if an ICC-based color specification is provided (see ‘color-interpolation’).

12.2 The ‘color’ property

The ‘color’ property is used to provide a potential indirect value (currentColor) for the ‘fill’, ‘stroke’, ‘stop-color’, ‘flood-color’ and ‘lighting-color’ properties.

‘color’
Value:   <color> | inherit
Initial:   depends on user agent
Applies to:   elements to which properties ‘fill’, ‘stroke’, ‘stop-color’, ‘flood-color’ and ‘lighting-color’ apply
Inherited:   yes
Percentages:   N/A
Media:   visual
Animatable:   yes

Except for any additional information provided in this specification, the normative definition of the property is in CSS2 ([CSS2], section 14.1).

12.3 Color profile descriptions

12.3.1 Overview of color profile descriptions

The International Color Consortium has established a standard, the ICC Profile [ICC42], for documenting the color characteristics of input and output devices. Using these profiles, it is possible to build a transform and correct visual data for viewing on different devices.

A color profile description provides the bridge between an ICC profile and references to that ICC profile within SVG content. The color profile description is added to the user agent's list of known color profiles and then used to select the relevant profile. The color profile description contains descriptors for the location of the color profile on the Web, a name to reference the profile and information about rendering intent.

12.3.2 Alternative ways of defining a color profile description

Color profile descriptions can be specified in either of the following ways:

  • a ‘color-profile’ element
  • an @color-profile rule within a CSS style sheet (only applicable for user agents which support using CSS to style the SVG content [CSS2])

If a color profile with the same name value has been identified by both a ‘color-profile’ element and @color-profile rules within a CSS style sheet, then the user agent shall first attempt to locate the profile by using the specifications in the @color-profile rules first.

12.3.3 The ‘color-profile’ element

‘color-profile’
Categories:
None
Content model:
Any number of the following elements, in any order:
  • descriptive elements‘desc’, ‘metadata’, ‘title’
Attributes:
  • core attributes‘id’, ‘xml:base’, ‘xml:lang’, ‘xml:space’
  • xlink attributes‘xlink:href’, ‘xlink:show’, ‘xlink:actuate’, ‘xlink:type’, ‘xlink:role’, ‘xlink:arcrole’, ‘xlink:title’
  • ‘local’
  • ‘name’
  • ‘rendering-intent’
  • ‘xlink:href’
DOM Interfaces:
  • SVGColorProfileElement

Attribute definitions:

xlink:href = "<iri>"
The location of an ICC profile resource.
Animatable: no.
local = "<string>"
The unique ID for a locally stored color profile. <string> is the profile's unique ID as specified by International Color Consortium. If both the ‘xlink:href’ and the ‘local’ attributes are specified, then the user agent shall search the local system for the locally stored color profile first, and, if not available locally, then attempt to use the resource identified by the ‘xlink:href’ attribute. (Note: Profile description fields do not represent a profile's unique ID. With current ICC proposals, the profile's unique ID is an MD5-encoded value within the profile header.)
Animatable: no.
name = "<name>"
The name which is used as the first parameter for icc-color specifications within ‘fill’, ‘stroke’, ‘stop-color’, ‘flood-color’ and ‘lighting-color’ property values to identify the color profile to use for the ICC color specification and the name which can be the value of the ‘color-profile’ property. Note that if <name> is not provided, it will be impossible to reference the given color profile description. The name "sRGB" is predefined; any color profile descriptions with <name> set to "sRGB" will be ignored. For consistency with CSS lexical scanning and parsing rules ([CSS2], section D.2), the keyword "sRGB" is case-insensitive; however, it is recommended that the mixed capitalization "sRGB" be used for consistency with common industry practice.
Animatable: no.
rendering-intent = "auto | perceptual | relative-colorimetric | saturation | absolute-colorimetric"

‘rendering-intent’ permits the specification of a color profile rendering intent other than the default. ‘rendering-intent’ is applicable primarily to color profiles corresponding to CMYK color spaces. The different options cause different methods to be used for translating colors to the color gamut of the target rendering device:

auto
This is the default behavior. The user agent determines the best intent based on the content type. For image content containing an embedded profile, it shall be assumed that the intent specified within the profile is the desired intent. Otherwise, the user agent shall use the current profile and force the intent, overriding any intent that might be stored in the profile itself.
perceptual
This method, often the preferred choice for images, preserves the relationship between colors. It attempts to maintain relative color values among the pixels as they are mapped to the target device gamut. Sometimes pixel values that were originally within the target device gamut are changed in order to avoid hue shifts and discontinuities and to preserve as much as possible the overall appearance of the scene.
saturation
Preserves the relative saturation (chroma) values of the original pixels. Out of gamut colors are converted to colors that have the same saturation but fall just inside the gamut.
relative-colorimetric
Leaves colors that fall inside the gamut unchanged. This method usually converts out of gamut colors to colors that have the same lightness but fall just inside the gamut.
absolute-colorimetric
Disables white point matching when converting colors. This option is generally not recommended.

Animatable: no.

12.3.4 The CSS @color-profile rule

When the document is styled using CSS, the @color-profile rule can be used to specify a color profile description. The general form is:

@color-profile { <color-profile-description> }
where the <color-profile-description> has the form:
descriptor: value;
[...]
descriptor: value;

Each @color-profile rule specifies a value for every color profile descriptor, either implicitly or explicitly. Those not given explicit values in the rule take the initial value listed with each descriptor in this specification. These descriptors apply solely within the context of the @color-profile rule in which they are defined, and do not apply to document language elements. Thus, there is no notion of which elements the descriptors apply to, or whether the values are inherited by child elements.

The following are the descriptors for a <color-profile-description>:

‘src’
Values: sRGB | <local-profile> | <iri> | (<local-profile> <iri>) | inherit
Initial: sRGB
Media: visual
sRGB
The source profile is the sRGB color space. For consistency with CSS lexical scanning and parsing rules ([CSS2], section D.2), the keyword "sRGB" is case-insensitive; however, it is recommended that the mixed capitalization "sRGB" be used for consistency with common industry practice.
<local-profile>
The source profile is a locally-stored profile. The syntax for <local-profile> is:
"local(" + <string> + ")"
where <string> is the profile's unique ID as specified by International Color Consortium. (Note: Profile description fields do not represent a profile's unique ID. With current ICC proposals, the profile's unique ID is an MD5-encoded value within the profile header.)
<iri>
The source profile is a IRI reference to a color profile.
(<local-profile> <iri>)
Two profiles are specified. If <local-profile> cannot be found on the local system, then the <iri> is used.
‘name’
Values: <name>
Initial: undefined
Media: visual
<name>
See the description for the ‘name’ attribute on the ‘color-profile’ element. Note that if <name> is not provided, it will be impossible to reference the given @color-profile definition.
‘rendering-intent’
Values: auto | perceptual | relative-colorimetric |
saturation | absolute-colorimetric
Initial: auto
Media: visual
Animatable:   no

See the description for the ‘rendering-intent’ attribute on the ‘color-profile’ element.

12.3.5 The ‘color-profile’ property

‘color-profile’
Value:   auto | sRGB | <name> | <iri> | inherit
Initial:   auto
Applies to:   ‘image’ elements that refer to raster images
Inherited:   yes
Percentages:   N/A
Media:   visual
Animatable:   yes
auto
This is the default behavior. All colors are presumed to be defined in the sRGB color space unless a more precise embedded profile is specified within content data. For images that do have a profile built into their data, that profile is used. For images that do not have a profile, the sRGB profile is used.
sRGB
The source profile is assumed to be sRGB. This differs from auto in that it overrides an embedded profile inside an image.

For consistency with CSS lexical scanning and parsing rules ([CSS2], section D.2), the keyword "sRGB" is case-insensitive; however, it is recommended that the mixed capitalization "sRGB" be used for consistency with common industry practice.
<name>
A name corresponding to a defined color profile that is in the user agent's color profile description database. The user agent searches the color profile description database for a color profile description entry whose name descriptor matches <name> and uses the last matching entry that is found. If a match is found, the corresponding profile overrides an embedded profile inside an image. If no match is found, then the embedded profile inside the image is used.
<iri>
A IRI reference to the source color profile. The referenced color profile overrides an embedded profile inside the image.

12.4 DOM interfaces

12.4.1 Interface SVGColorProfileElement

The SVGColorProfileElement interface corresponds to the ‘color-profile’ element.
interface SVGColorProfileElement : SVGElement,
                                   SVGURIReference,
                                   SVGRenderingIntent {
  attribute DOMString local;
  attribute DOMString name;
  attribute unsigned short renderingIntent;
};
Attributes:
local (DOMString)
Corresponds to attribute ‘local’ on the given element.
name (DOMString)
Corresponds to attribute ‘name’ on the given element.
renderingIntent (unsigned short)
Corresponds to attribute ‘rendering-intent’ on the given element. The value of this attribute is the value of the the RENDERING_INTENT_* constant defined on SVGRenderingIntent that corresponds to the value of the ‘rendering-intent’ attribute.

12.4.2 Interface SVGColorProfileRule

The SVGColorProfileRule interface represents an @color-profile rule in a CSS style sheet. An @color-profile rule identifies a ICC profile which can be referenced within a given document.

Support for the SVGColorProfileRule interface is only required in user agents that support styling with CSS.

interface SVGColorProfileRule : SVGCSSRule,
                                SVGRenderingIntent {
  attribute DOMString src setraises(DOMException);
  attribute DOMString name setraises(DOMException);
  attribute unsigned short renderingIntent setraises(DOMException);
};
Attributes:
src (DOMString)
Corresponds to descriptor src within an @color-profile rule.
Exceptions on setting
DOMException, code NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR
Raised on an attempt to change the value of a read only attribute.
name (DOMString)
Corresponds to descriptor ‘name’ within an @color-profile rule.
Exceptions on setting
DOMException, code NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR
Raised on an attempt to change the value of a read only attribute.
renderingIntent (unsigned short)
The type of rendering intent, identified by one of the SVGRenderingIntent constants.
Exceptions on setting
DOMException, code NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR
Raised on an attempt to change the value of a read only attribute.
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