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Lab and LCH

The CIE Lab color space expresses colors in terms of lightness and how red/green and blue/yellow a color is. LCH is a variant of Lab with polar coordinates. These color spaces can be used with the CSS color(), lab(), and lch() functions. Also known as CIELAB and CIELCH.

Status

Baseline Widely Available (since 2025-11-09)

MDN documentation

Specifications

Browser support (view on caniuse.com)

  • Chrome 111 Released on 2023-03-07
  • Chrome Android 111 Released on 2023-03-07
  • Edge 111 Released on 2023-03-13
  • Firefox 113 Released on 2023-05-09
  • Firefox for Android 113 Released on 2023-05-09
  • Safari 15 Released on 2021-09-20
  • Safari on iOS 15 Released on 2021-09-20

Usage (according to Chrome Platform Status)

~0.481% of page loads. More data at chromestatus.com.

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