Contrast magnitudes for 8 Myr planets in the NG76 population synthesis model (Emsenhuber et al. 2020, 2021). Two populations of 0.05–0.5 M_Jup and 3–10 M_Jup planets areartificially located at 80 and 20 au, respectively. Estimated extinction coefficients are from Sanchis et al. (2020) (see text). The METIS contrast curve is from Carlomagno et al. (2020), and the SPHERE limits correspond to the derived contrast in this work for RX J1604, which we adopt as a representative host star. Small random shifts in separation are applied for a better visibility of the populations, and dot sizes are connected to planet radius.