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Re: RGB color values for many brick colors
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lugnet.publish, lugnet.trains, lugnet.faq, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad
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Wed, 27 Jun 2001 20:32:12 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, Suzanne D. Rich writes:
Here's a different type, one for print colors (CMYK). To read those
color values, use something like Photoshop to sample inside framed
boxes. some of these may be considered official, as well as the naming scheme.

http://www.baseplate.com/colors/gif-pic.html

Cool. Do you know the actual CMYK values, or are you saying that everyone
ought to do that sampling on their own??

I was at an ink manufacturer recently and they can take colors in either RGB
or CMYK but prefer the latter. (they also have spectrophotometers that you
can just put things under and get ink recipes from in one fell swoop. Tres cool)



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  Re: RGB color values for many brick colors
 
The original Pantone pallette I used had CMYK values, I translated them via Photoshop for your convience. I assumed in web development (like the colors use on the BricWorx color selector) and most non-print graphic design are done in RGB. SteveB (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.trains, lugnet.faq, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad)
  Re: RGB color values for many brick colors
 
(...) I'm assuming "CMYK" translates to something along the lines of Blue,Red,Yellow,Black? Or more appropriately "Cyan","Magenta","Yellow",K? (what the heck would K be?) If you had the CMYK values, could these be mathematically translated into (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.trains, lugnet.faq, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad)

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  Re: RGB color values for many brick colors
 
Here's a different type, one for print colors (CMYK). To read those color values, use something like Photoshop to sample inside framed boxes. some of these may be considered official, as well as the naming scheme. (...) (23 years ago, 27-Jun-01, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.trains, lugnet.faq, lugnet.off-topic.geek)  

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