Chrome 111 just launched with support for CSS Color Level 4, which means its added support for expanded color spaces beyond just sRGB.
Here's a codepen demonstrating a comparison (reproduced below). If your display supports HDR you should see a red square and a green square. Inside the red square there should be another square of a deeper red. And inside the green square, another square of a much brighter green.
However, sometimes there's no difference between the shades of red and green. Unmaximizing the window, switching to a dark page for a while (like stackoverflow in dark mode) and then coming back to the codepen, and various other activities seem to "de-activate" the expanded color palette.
Opening this page, and then switching back to the codepen reliably "re-activates" the expanded color palette.
Most reliably, when the expanded color palette is active, I can drag the tab with the codepen out of the Chrome window and the palette contracts. I drag the window back in, and the palette expands. I can go back and forth.
Is this a bug in Chrome? A fault in my monitor? Or something else?
Unfortunately I can't capture any of this in screenshots because the HDR colors get flattened no matter how I try to capture. I even tried the Xbox Game Bar. And of course your screen would also have to support HDR.
body { display: flex; gap: 2vw; }
div {
position: relative;
width: 20vw;
height: 46vh;
}
div div {
left: 2vw;
top: 5vh;
width: 16vw;
height: 36vh;
}
div:nth-child(1) {
background-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);
}
div:nth-child(1) div {
background-color: color(display-p3 1 0 0 / 1);
}
div:nth-child(2) {
background-color: rgb(0, 255, 0);
}
div:nth-child(2) div {
background-color: color(display-p3 0 1 0 / 1);
}
<div><div></div></div>
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