They matboard companies create their own palette and create their own colors. Our surface paper colors are created with color dyes that don't match the Pantone color system." Their response was "Sorry, We don't have Pantone numbers assigned to our colors. Hey Doug.hope you don't mind if I use this to explain it a little better. ![]() You can make one yourself by spending the time to compare them, I wouldn't want to spend the time myself. Doing a color match for a printer is very expensive.īut to answer your question there is no cross reference that I know of to accomplish what you have in mind. You can achieve just about any color using the 4 process color inks, cyan, magenta, yellow and black.ĭepending on what kind of paper you plan to put it on it should come out pretty close. Most ink companies will make an ink for you, like paint companies, if you give them a chip of the matboard or come as close to the color as possible. PMS is just one of the many color matching systems out there. Within the printing industry there are so many different ink makers and ink color systems it will make your head spin. Of course you know all these are different bases for the inks, paints, or dyes. Why would you be talking to a printer/designer about anything else than a PMS color? It's like asking your car painter to match a house paint? That's when I realized there was a problem with how it was identifying the matboards, called Pantone to verify my suspicions and scrapped the idea. Most of the time, Pantone close just isn't close at all. you'd have just as much luck telling your guy "sky blue". are giving out their true RGB colors you'd have to create the master list yourself. You could try it in your computer with a standard scanner.but unless Crescent, etc. To my knowledge, no one has a true portable RGB scanning system. So it wound up being a $500 "close", which was really disappointing. Matboard colors seem to hit between everything Pantone. It isn't a full spectrum analysis, its Pantone's closest equivalent. Even if you ask for RGB, its the RGB of the closest Pantone. When you scan something, it relays the closest pantone color. Vibrant colors are usually used for setting accents, while pastel and pale colors often appear in the background or in unprocessed photos.(I used to have a Pantone scanner that I bought JUST to match matboard colors on an online website.) Vibrant colors are pure and only exhibit limited amounts of grey, while pastel and pale colors are diluted with grey and are less poppy. The intensity is inversely proportional to the amount of grey in a color. The color intensity is described using one of 7 levels (ordered from the most to the least saturated): There are only 2 hues that are occasionally skipped or ignored when describing complex hues: cyan and magenta.įor example, instead of referencing cyan, the notion of a "greenish blue" may be used. Only combinations of subsequent hues (as listed above) are possible.įor example, there is a "blueish purple", but there is no "yellowish purple". ![]() More complex hues can be described as a composition of two hues, one as the primary and one as the secondary hue.įor example, "orangy red" describes a hue that is red with a hint of orange (red is primary and orange is secondary). ![]() It ranges between 0% and 100%, with 100% being a perfect match most matches are greater than 95% thanks to the high density of the used color dictionary.Įach color belongs to one of the 8 basic hues: The color match score represents the similarity between the selected color and the most similar color from the dictionary. The supported RGB codes correspond to the 24-bit system where each component ranges between 0 and 255 (8-bit encoding).Ĭolor names are provided by the comprehensive Art圜lick Color Dictionary The Art圜lick Color Name Finder can be used to find color names from the hex or RGB color codes. Since lighting conditions strongly affect the colors in an image, it is recommended to take pictures in natural light to obtain the most representative color names. Once the image is loaded, clicking on the image areas will initiate the color name identification. It finds color names for 3 types of input: The feature "Color Name Finder" provides the most common names for a color.
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