Abstract: Certain examples relate to a method of color prediction. Data indicative of color characteristics measured from a number of color test patches is obtained. Data indicative of combinations of color resources used to render the color test patches on a color rendering device is obtained. A first predictive model is trained using the data indicative of the combinations of color resources as an input and corresponding data indicative of color characteristics as ground truth outputs. A second predictive model is trained using the output data from the first predictive model as an input and the corresponding data indicative of color characteristics as ground truth outputs. A progressive mapping is implemented by the first and second predictive models to predict color characteristics rendered by the color rendering device given a combination of color resources.