[PaulHoule]

These days I would want a color picker that considers the lighting and surrounding colors.

I have an office which has huge windows facing (mostly) away from the sun so I have bright light from either clouds or blue sky. Reproductions of renaissance paintings and photographs on ‘bright white’ paper look great, but at home the color temps are in the high 2000s usually and I need coated papers for the images to be compelling.

So I am always thinking about what environment a print is in and would love to have more tools to tune up the appearance.

[toastal]

Then get a colorimeter that can measure that ambient light and recalibrate your screen. The highest end monitors have hoods on them to prevent external light from having too much influence on your screen.

If your desk doesn't move, you could always have a cron job that loads different color profiles based on time of day and possibly weather if you really want to make a project of it.

[jedimastert]

I think screen color space and print color space are just two entirely different considerations. They meet up in the middle somewhere, but you really can't look at both at the same time

[PaulHoule]

Either the screen or the print depends on the surrounding environment. The print also depends on how it is lit.

To some extent one learns that something that looks like this in one environment will look like that in that environment.

[nielsbot]

FTA: OKLab et al specifically excludes consideration of illumination environment for simplicity: "Should assume normal well lit viewing conditions"

https://bottosson.github.io/posts/oklab/

[numpad0]

“Technically correct” way would be to control the surroundings than adapt representations. High CRI lightbulbs, display hoods, wallpapers, etc.