# Install argyll-cms with Homebrew, winget ICC compatible color management system. Version 3.5.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-19. ## Install ```sh sudo av install brew:argyll-cms ``` Additional install commands: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install argyll-cms ``` Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata ### Windows - winget (92%): ```sh winget install --id GraemeGill.ArgyllCMS -e ``` Evidence: Windows Package Manager source index: GraemeGill.ArgyllCMS from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix ## Package facts - **Package key:** brew:argyll-cms - **Package manager:** Homebrew - **Package manager page:** - **Version:** 3.5.0 - **Source summary:** ICC compatible color management system - **Homepage:** - **Upstream docs:** - **License:** AGPL-3.0-only - **Source archive:** - **Last updated:** 2026-06-19T12:30:02-07:00 - **Generated:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00 ## Executables - applycal (cli) - average (cli) - cb2ti3 (cli) - cctiff (cli) - ccxxmake (cli) - chartread (cli) - collink (cli) - colprof (cli) - colverify (cli) - cxf2ti3 (cli) - dispcal (cli) - dispread (cli) - dispwin (cli) - extracticc (cli) - extractttag (cli) - fakeCMY (cli) - fakeread (cli) - greytiff (cli) - iccdump (cli) - iccgamut (cli) - icclu (cli) - iccvcgt (cli) - illumread (cli) - invprofcheck (cli) - jam (cli) - kodak2ti3 (cli) - ls2ti3 (cli) - mppcheck (cli) - mpplu (cli) - mppprof (cli) - oeminst (cli) - printcal (cli) - printtarg (cli) - profcheck (cli) - refine (cli) - revfix (cli) - scanin (cli) - spec2cie (cli) - specplot (cli) - splitti3 (cli) - spotread (cli) - synthcal (cli) - synthread (cli) - targen (cli) - tiffgamut (cli) - timage (cli) - txt2ti3 (cli) - viewgam (cli) - xicclu (cli) - applycal (alias) - average (alias) - cb2ti3 (alias) - cctiff (alias) - ccxxmake (alias) - chartread (alias) - collink (alias) - colprof (alias) - colverify (alias) - cxf2ti3 (alias) - dispcal (alias) - dispread (alias) - dispwin (alias) - extracticc (alias) - extractttag (alias) - fakeCMY (alias) - fakeread (alias) - greytiff (alias) - iccdump (alias) - iccgamut (alias) - icclu (alias) - iccvcgt (alias) - illumread (alias) - invprofcheck (alias) - jam (alias) - kodak2ti3 (alias) - ls2ti3 (alias) - mppcheck (alias) - mpplu (alias) - mppprof (alias) - oeminst (alias) - printcal (alias) - printtarg (alias) - profcheck (alias) - refine (alias) - revfix (alias) - scanin (alias) - spec2cie (alias) - specplot (alias) - splitti3 (alias) - spotread (alias) - synthcal (alias) - synthread (alias) - targen (alias) - tiffgamut (alias) - timage (alias) - txt2ti3 (alias) - viewgam (alias) - xicclu (alias) ## Dependencies - jpeg-turbo - libpng - libtiff - openssl@3 ## Install behavior - Post-install hook: not defined - Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux ## Freshness - Page generated: 2026-07-08 - Package-manager version: 3.5.0 - Package-manager updated: 2026-06-19 - Local data: ok - Upstream repository: https://www.argyllcms.com/ - info: Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories. ## Project history and usage ArgyllCMS is Graeme Gill's open-source ICC-compatible color-management system. It is distributed as a collection of command-line tools, plus icclib and cgatslib, for creating, inspecting, linking, applying, and validating color profiles across displays, scanners, cameras, film recorders, RGB printers, CMY/CMYK printers, and video calibration workflows. ### Project history The ArgyllCMS documentation records a long pre-release gestation: code development began in 1995, icclib first appeared publicly in November 1998, and ArgyllCMS itself was first released publicly in October 2000. The project remained centered on Gill's own site rather than a public forge-style source-control home, with the official documentation and downloadable source archives serving as the primary upstream surfaces. The official overview explains the motivation as both practical and research-oriented. Gill wrote Argyll to deepen his own color expertise, to experiment with alternate approaches to electronic color correction, and to make advanced color-management work available outside proprietary systems. That origin shows in the package's shape: it is not a single polished GUI, but a dense toolbox of interoperating utilities and libraries. By version 3.5.0, dated 4 February 2026, the documentation described support for ICC profile creation, calibration and profiling, device links, specialized video calibration standards, 3D LUTs, spectral sample data, illuminant and observer choices, fluorescent-whitener compensation, CIECAM02-based gamut mapping, and browser-based gamut viewing through X3DOM. Its changelog-style release history is continuous enough that ArgyllCMS reads as mature specialist infrastructure rather than a one-off utility. ### Adoption history ArgyllCMS became important in open-source color workflows because it made serious profiling and calibration scriptable on ordinary Unix-like and desktop systems. The official home page explicitly asks users and distributors to support the work, including those who benefit from having serious color management on platforms beyond commercial Windows and macOS tooling. Its ecosystem role is reinforced by the International Color Consortium's open-source tools page, which lists Argyll as an open-source ICC v2-compatible color-management system and describes it as command-line tools plus icclib and a CGATS file-format library. That is strong secondary confirmation from the standards community around the file format Argyll manipulates. ### How it is used Typical use is a workflow rather than a single command. Users generate or print targets, measure devices with supported instruments, build ICC profiles, verify or inspect those profiles, load display calibration, convert raster files, create device links, and inspect gamut data. The official scenarios page is organized around tasks such as display profiling, scanner and camera profiling, printer profiling and calibration, profile linking, raster transforms, observer color-matching functions, and video calibration 3D LUTs. The package is command-line-first by design. The documentation calls it a command-line terminal environment and provides separate pages for the major tools, which makes it useful in repeatable lab, prepress, photography, and package-manager workflows where a GUI-only calibrator would be awkward or impossible to automate. ### Why package nerds care ArgyllCMS is a classic package-manager stress test: one source distribution produces dozens of small, domain-specific executables, several libraries, instrument access code, profile and measurement file formats, and platform-specific display behavior. It is valuable precisely because packaging preserves a specialist toolchain that would otherwise be trapped in proprietary desktop applications. It also matters as a preservation bridge between color science and everyday Unix tooling. Package users can keep old instruments, ICC profiles, spectral measurements, printer targets, and calibration routines usable through plain commands, even when vendor software stops supporting a device or platform. ### Timeline - 1995: Code development began. - 1998-11: icclib first appeared publicly. - 2000-10: ArgyllCMS first appeared publicly. - 2026-02-04: ArgyllCMS 3.5.0 documentation and home page were dated 4 February 2026. ### Related projects - icclib and cgatslib are included ArgyllCMS libraries. - ICC profiles, CGATS data, CIECAM02, X3DOM gamut viewing, and color-measurement instrument drivers are central to the ArgyllCMS workflow. - The International Color Consortium lists Argyll alongside other open-source ICC tools such as iccDEV, IccXml, LittleCMS, and LPROF. ### Sources - - - - - ## Security Notes broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. - **Geiger risk:** blue / medium - broad file, network, media, or database tool signal ## Source Database Details - **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API - **Tap:** homebrew/core - **Full Name:** argyll-cms - **Version Scheme:** 0 - **Revision:** 0 - **Conflicts With:** num-utils - **Bottle Stable Root URL:** - **Deprecated:** no - **Disabled:** no - **Keg Only:** no - **URL Keys:** stable ## Other Package-Manager Records - winget - GraemeGill.ArgyllCMS: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: GraemeGill.ArgyllCMS from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix ## Related links - [Secret-risk packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/secret-risk-packages/) - Has protected-tool coverage, approval-gate, or non-low Geiger security signals. - [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata. - [Networking and protocol packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/networking-protocol-tools/) - Matched network, protocol, or remote-service metadata. - [Media and graphics packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/media-graphics-tools/) - Matched media, image, audio, video, or graphics metadata. - [jpeg-turbo](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/jpeg-turbo/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [libpng](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/libpng/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [libtiff](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/libtiff/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [openssl@3](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/openssl-3/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew. - [babl](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/babl/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, color-management, media. - [ctl](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/ctl/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, color-management, media. - [little-cms2](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/little-cms2/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, color-management, media. - [opencolorio](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/opencolorio/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, color-management, media. - [a52dec](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/a52dec/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, media. - [aalib](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/aalib/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, media. - [ab-av1](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/ab-av1/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, media. - [abcde](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/abcde/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, media. - [efl](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/efl/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. 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