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> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 12:32:09 -0400
> From: Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza@udel.edu>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > Yes.  But it would be nicer if the lcms.c functions accepted colors in
> > any form supported by Emacs: a color name, a string RGB spec, or a
> > list of RGB values.  I think.
> 
> But color-distance and color-values do that already, and it's just
> a matter of converting 16bit RGB to another color space, and all those
> utilities exist already in color.el

If we don't intend that lcms.c functions be used independently, then I
guess it's OK.