---
title: NSColorRenderingIntent
framework: appkit
role: symbol
role_heading: Enumeration
path: appkit/nscolorrenderingintent
---

# NSColorRenderingIntent

Constants that specify how Cocoa should handle colors that are not located within the destination color space of a graphics context.

## Declaration

```swift
enum NSColorRenderingIntent
```

## Overview

Overview These constants are used by the property colorRenderingIntent.

## Topics

### Constants

- [NSColorRenderingIntent.default](appkit/nscolorrenderingintent/default.md)
- [NSColorRenderingIntent.absoluteColorimetric](appkit/nscolorrenderingintent/absolutecolorimetric.md)
- [NSColorRenderingIntent.relativeColorimetric](appkit/nscolorrenderingintent/relativecolorimetric.md)
- [NSColorRenderingIntent.perceptual](appkit/nscolorrenderingintent/perceptual.md)
- [NSColorRenderingIntent.saturation](appkit/nscolorrenderingintent/saturation.md)

### Initializers

- [init(rawValue:)](appkit/nscolorrenderingintent/init(rawvalue:).md)

## Relationships

### Conforms To

- [BitwiseCopyable](swift/bitwisecopyable.md)
- [Equatable](swift/equatable.md)
- [Hashable](swift/hashable.md)
- [RawRepresentable](swift/rawrepresentable.md)
- [Sendable](swift/sendable.md)
- [SendableMetatype](swift/sendablemetatype.md)

## See Also

### Managing Color Rendering

- [colorRenderingIntent](appkit/nsgraphicscontext/colorrenderingintent.md)