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Re: Color chart
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lugnet.faq
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Mon, 29 May 2000 20:06:48 GMT
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In lugnet.faq, Suzanne D. Rich writes:
> In lugnet.faq, Shiri Dori writes:
> > In lugnet.general, Suzanne D. Rich writes:
> > > I have a finished rough draft of an element color chart:
> > >
> > > http://www.baseplate.com/colors/
> >
> > I like it a lot! It'll definitely come in handy.
> >
> > > Rather than render each swatch as an image, I used HTML's table background
> > > specs
> > > for the colors. So, 8-bit displays are probably inadequate for viewing.
> >
> > How did you determine what colors to use? I'm asking because the light colors
> > don't come up too well on my computer (true color settings). For example,
> > purple (what I'd call dk. pink, but ne'er mind) shows up pretty close to the
> > real thing, but purple+1 (the paradisa pink) shows up much lighter than the
> > real brick I have in front of me. And most of the light colors all look the
> > same here.
> >
> > -Shiri
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> just to keep in mind: lightness will vary depending upon your computer's gamma
> setting. That is to say, if you're running a Mac with default settings, some
> colors will look lighter than on my computer or an average PC running Windows.
> You've also got the monitor's calibration to consider (if you have like a pro
> monitor). color matching on the internet drives me insane. Things were so cut
> and dry in the print world.
> :-\
I'm no color expert, but what I have learned over the years has told me that
color matching is an incredibly difficult art/science. It's interesting, in
print media, color matching is difficult, but at least once you've printed
something, everyone will pretty much see it the same way (though I'm sure that
our eyes/brain end up perceiving some colors differently from each other), at
least under the same lighting conditions (of which there thankfully aren't
that many common lighting conditions). Digital color matching holds the
promise of the display system being able to manipulate the colors so that we
all see the same thing no matter the lighting conditions, but such technology
isn't cheap (yet), and every monitor is different, and of course everyone has
to agree on the exact process.
> Another of the chart's commented-out features which I'll add today is to view
> the colors against dark or light backgrounds (rather than gray). That should
> help you a bit. If you're still not seeing much color, I'll be interested to
> know.
Selectable background would definitely help (this is one advantage of this
type of system over a photo of a bunch of LEGO parts on a big plate). In fact,
it should be possible to set the page up with a form which allows one to chose
any background color (though such flexibility may not be necessary).
Frank
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