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Splash Is a Colour Format
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#32As somebody who works in the coatings industry and is aware of the extremely complex field of colorimetry this horrifies me.
I cherish the month I spent helping a printing press company. RGB is just the start. Heck, CYMK isn't enough for all the weird inks like neon pink, silver or UV.
I present you the Interior Designer’s weapon of mass disruption: NCS.
Worse still: European urban development projects have adopted it. I never knew there could be so many varieties of ‘ochre’.
Re: Splash Is a Colour Format
#33oh berd
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#35This is amazing work, but I am unsure how it helps, hex-codes were doing the trick right?
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#36As somebody who works in the coatings industry and is aware of the extremely complex field of colorimetry this horrifies me.
author here. splash is for screens, not coatings
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#37This is amazing work, but I am unsure how it helps, hex-codes were doing the trick right?
author here. hex codes weren't doing the trick, no
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#38I get the concept, but I have a feeling this might not be any more comprehensible when picking a colour than other additive colour codes with a fixed range and components. It would be neat if you could express colours as a mix of arbitrary base colours, kind of like you’re mixing it on a paint palette. (ROYGBIVWK maybe? K being Key/blacK) r2b1 gets you a deep reddish purple, but if you want it to be lighter you just…
author here. there are other ways to pick colours, yes
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#39or you could use 3-digit octal (so 000-777) for a 512 color palette, which arguably would be even more simple. as a bonus you can use it to color file permissions :)
author here. counting to 7 is unintuitive for me
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#40Isn't this just RGB, with 246 of the 256 values removed from each channel?
author here. yes