diff --git a/src/decoder/image.rs b/src/decoder/image.rs
index 4ff351b5..eef5d0a5 100644
--- a/src/decoder/image.rs
+++ b/src/decoder/image.rs
@@ -95,6 +95,19 @@ pub(crate) struct ReadoutLayout {
     pub planar_config: PlanarConfiguration,
 
     /// The sample interpretation (interpret with planar_config).
+    ///
+    /// FIXME: we should not require this here. The ability to turn out the raw bytes from the
+    /// sample arrays is very different from turning out interpretable color. Firstly we can always
+    /// readout `Multiband` but currently only use that ColorType in special circumstances (it must
+    /// not overlap cases where actually want to use a ColorType).
+    ///
+    /// And then we have CIE Lab, which uses a tuple of `(u8, i8, i8)`, that is still filterable
+    /// but still not represented by any of our `DecoderResult` variants. Other color variants
+    /// depend on extra tags (YCbCrCoefficients/0x0211) and we don't have a good side channel to
+    /// tag the output with all that TIFF specific information, so arguably we should process and
+    /// apply those to the data so it becomes a self-contained representation.
+    ///
+    /// This should be computed at a higher level, in `Decoder`, instead.
     pub color: ColorType,
     /// The number of bytes from one row to another.
     pub minimum_row_stride: usize,
@@ -435,15 +448,60 @@ impl Image {
                     }),
                 }
             }
-            // TODO: this is bad we should not fail at this point
-            PhotometricInterpretation::RGBPalette
-            | PhotometricInterpretation::TransparencyMask
-            | PhotometricInterpretation::CIELab => Err(TiffError::UnsupportedError(
+            // ```
+            // struct IccLab /* Interpretation 9* {
+            //     pub L: u8, // SampleFormat::Uint
+            //     pub a: u8, // SampleFormat::Uint, defined as TiffLab::a + 128
+            //     pub b: u8, // SampleFormat::Uint, defined as TiffLab::b + 128
+            // }
+            // ```
+            PhotometricInterpretation::IccLab => match self.photometric_samples {
+                3 if matches!(self.sample_format, SampleFormat::Uint) => {
+                    Ok(ColorType::Lab(self.bits_per_sample))
+                }
+                _ => Err(TiffError::UnsupportedError(
+                    TiffUnsupportedError::InterpretationWithBits(
+                        self.photometric_interpretation,
+                        vec![self.bits_per_sample; self.samples as usize],
+                    ),
+                )),
+            },
+            // Unsupported due to inherently heterogeneous sample types. This is represented as:
+            // ```
+            // struct TiffLab /* Interpretation 8* {
+            //     pub L: u8, // SampleFormat::Uint
+            //     pub a: i8, // SampleFormat::Int
+            //     pub b: i8, // SampleFormat::Int
+            // }
+            // ```
+            PhotometricInterpretation::CIELab => Err(TiffError::UnsupportedError(
                 TiffUnsupportedError::InterpretationWithBits(
-                    self.photometric_interpretation,
+                    PhotometricInterpretation::CIELab,
                     vec![self.bits_per_sample; self.samples as usize],
                 ),
             )),
+            // Unsupported due to extra unfiltering and conversion steps. We need to find the
+            // Decode tag (SRATIONAL; 2 * SamplesPerPixel) and apply the following conversion:
+            //
+            // L* = Decode[0] + Lsample x (Decode[1] - Decode[0]) / (2^n -1)
+            // …
+            //
+            // So we'll have a larger depth in the output and either worry about reducing fractions
+            // or turn everything into floats. That's a lot of decisions.
+            PhotometricInterpretation::ItuLab => Err(TiffError::UnsupportedError(
+                TiffUnsupportedError::InterpretationWithBits(
+                    PhotometricInterpretation::CIELab,
+                    vec![self.bits_per_sample; self.samples as usize],
+                ),
+            )),
+            PhotometricInterpretation::RGBPalette | PhotometricInterpretation::TransparencyMask => {
+                Err(TiffError::UnsupportedError(
+                    TiffUnsupportedError::InterpretationWithBits(
+                        self.photometric_interpretation,
+                        vec![self.bits_per_sample; self.samples as usize],
+                    ),
+                ))
+            }
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 39b9ddbe..e7c2f1c5 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ pub enum ColorType {
     /// Pixel is YCbCr
     YCbCr(u8),
 
+    /// Pixel is CIE L*a*b* (ICC LAb)
+    Lab(u8),
+
     /// Pixel has multiple bands/channels
     Multiband { bit_depth: u8, num_samples: u16 },
 }
@@ -58,6 +61,7 @@ impl ColorType {
             | ColorType::CMYK(b)
             | ColorType::CMYKA(b)
             | ColorType::YCbCr(b)
+            | ColorType::Lab(b)
             | ColorType::Multiband { bit_depth: b, .. } => b,
         }
     }
@@ -72,6 +76,7 @@ impl ColorType {
             ColorType::CMYK(_) => 4,
             ColorType::CMYKA(_) => 5,
             ColorType::YCbCr(_) => 3,
+            ColorType::Lab(_) => 3,
             ColorType::Multiband { num_samples, .. } => num_samples,
         }
     }
diff --git a/src/tags.rs b/src/tags.rs
index 7e4aa31b..f456f659 100644
--- a/src/tags.rs
+++ b/src/tags.rs
@@ -266,6 +266,8 @@ pub enum PhotometricInterpretation(u16) {
     CMYK = 5,
     YCbCr = 6,
     CIELab = 8,
+    IccLab = 9,
+    ItuLab = 10,
 }
 }