---
title: "CIE (International Commission on Illumination)"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "concept"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "International Commission on Illumination"
aliases: ["CIE","Commission Internationale de l'Éclairage"]
first_seen: "2026-07-09T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["CIELAB","CIEDE2000","colorimetry","perceptual uniformity"]
---


The international standards body for colorimetry and photometry. Its 1976 recommendation produced CIELAB and CIELUV as perceptually-uniform successors to CIEXYZ, and its later technical reports (CIE 15:2004, restating and updating the 1976 work) document both the design intent and the acknowledged residual non-uniformity that CIEDE2000 was built to correct. The vault's CIELAB/CIEDE2000 cluster has treated "the CIE recommends X" as load-bearing across five-plus claim-notes since 2026-07-09, without a hub page until this promotion closed the primary-source verification question for the cluster.

## References
- [[claim-cielab-designed-to-remedy-ciexyz-perceptual-nonuniformity]] · [[claim-cielab-lacks-perceptual-uniformity-in-blue-hues]] · [[claim-cielab-only-approximately-uniform-fixed-by-noneuclidean-formulas]] · [[claim-cie-15-2004-recommends-cielab-for-perceptual-uniformity]] · [[claim-cie-15-2004-blue-region-nonuniformity-motivates-ciede2000-rotation]] · [[claim-ciede2000-blue-hue-rotation-localized-near-275-degrees]]
- Related hubs: [[entity-ciede2000]]