🍺 BREW Explorer

← all formulae

little-cms2

brew install little-cms2 v2.19 MIT

C library for ICC color profile handling and color space transformations.

Why you might care

Used by image processing tools (ImageMagick, GIMP, etc.) and document viewers to accurately render colors across devices. It's a standard dependency for any application that needs color-managed image I/O, especially when working with JPEG or TIFF files. Lightweight and widely trusted in the graphics/publishing ecosystem.

Categories

library image-tool

Alternatives

ImageMagick libvips OpenColorIO
129.7k
30-day installs · #25
416.1k
90-day · #31
1.3M
365-day · #38

Runtime dependencies

jpeg-turbo libtiff

Links

Blurb generated by claude-haiku-4-5 on today.

Raw metadata 
{
  "aliases": [
    "lcms2"
  ],
  "alternatives": [
    "ImageMagick",
    "libvips",
    "OpenColorIO"
  ],
  "build_dependencies": [],
  "categories": [
    "library",
    "image-tool"
  ],
  "caveats": null,
  "conflicts_with": [],
  "dependencies": [
    "jpeg-turbo",
    "libtiff"
  ],
  "deprecated": 0,
  "deprecation_reason": null,
  "desc": "Color management engine supporting ICC profiles",
  "disable_reason": null,
  "disabled": 0,
  "enrichment_fetched_at": "2026-06-20T23:40:37+00:00",
  "first_seen": "2026-06-20T23:34:18+00:00",
  "full_name": "little-cms2",
  "github_default_branch": null,
  "github_last_commit_at": null,
  "github_readme_excerpt": null,
  "github_repo": null,
  "github_stars": null,
  "github_topics": [],
  "homepage": "https://www.littlecms.com/",
  "homepage_og_description": null,
  "homepage_og_image": null,
  "homepage_title": "Little Color Management System",
  "installs_30d": 129672,
  "installs_365d": 1349435,
  "installs_90d": 416088,
  "keg_only": 0,
  "keg_only_reason": null,
  "last_seen": "2026-06-20T23:34:18+00:00",
  "license": "MIT",
  "llm_generated_at": "2026-06-20T23:42:12+00:00",
  "llm_model": "claude-haiku-4-5",
  "name": "little-cms2",
  "oldnames": [],
  "one_liner": "C library for ICC color profile handling and color space transformations.",
  "optional_dependencies": [],
  "rank_30d": 25,
  "rank_365d": 38,
  "rank_90d": 31,
  "raw_hash": "b2bc5bbe1c8f7455",
  "recommended_dependencies": [],
  "revision": 0,
  "ruby_source_path": "Formula/l/little-cms2.rb",
  "tap": "homebrew/core",
  "test_dependencies": [],
  "uses_from_macos": [],
  "version_head": null,
  "version_stable": "2.19",
  "versioned_formulae": [],
  "why_use_this": "Used by image processing tools (ImageMagick, GIMP, etc.) and document viewers to accurately render colors across devices. It\u0027s a standard dependency for any application that needs color-managed image I/O, especially when working with JPEG or TIFF files. Lightweight and widely trusted in the graphics/publishing ecosystem."
}