Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-images-4] Consider allowing gradients to include a color space for interpolation to take place in (#5833)

And yes, both Lab and LCH are useful here. Both are (approximately) perceptually uniform; LCH is also chroma-preserving so a gradient between two very different, saturated hues will go around the hue circle rather than in a straight line, which will get greyish near the middle.

Both options avoid the un-necessary darkening that happens when calculations are done directly on the gamma-encoded RGB values rather than converting them to linear-light first.

CSS Color 5 has [a section on color interpolation](https://drafts.csswg.org/css-color-5/#interpolation) which can be used as a basis (and allows an individual CSS feature to pick a default colorspace for a given operation, as well as encouraging ssntax so authors can pick other colorspaces). In particular it defines [interpolating with alpha](https://drafts.csswg.org/css-color-5/#interpolation-alpha), and [hue interpolation[(https://drafts.csswg.org/css-color-5/#hue-interpolation) for polar spaces with a hue angle. And unlike the legacy parts of CSS, CSS Color 5 does not make assumptions like "all colors are sRGB".

As a first step, in the new year I want to make some examples with pairs of colors interpolated in various spaces, so people can see the practical effect of doing so.

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