[thelist] Colour rendition disclaimer anyone?
Stephen Rider
evolt_org at striderweb.com
Tue Jan 20 10:03:21 CST 2004
On Monday, January 19, 2004, at 02:18 PM, John C Bullas wrote:
> are their any test cards you can put up to give them a refrerence
> standard to see how wrong their monitor is ;)
Hi all --
You sound as though you're looking for a physical color reference card
that you could hold up to the monitor to show him how far off a monitor
can be. Pantone is obviously one source, but probably far far more
than you need :)
You might try Visibone <http://www.visibone.com/>; they sell Web color
reference cards for about $10. The only drawback there is that the
swatches are fairly small on the cards, and may not be big enough to
get a good comparison.
You might do a search on the net and see if you can find out the
specific color of a common item such as, say, a can of Coke, and set up
a swatch page with that color. Then you just hold up a Coke can next
to it and see just how far off it is.
Or find a clothing site that has a similar color disclaimer (some but
not all of them do) and show that to him to simply convince him that it
_is_ a concern.
Here's a question for the designer types out there -- I've heard that
the human eye can perceive differences in shade more easily with
certain colors, but I don't know which colors. Is there a certain
color range that would be best for this type of comparison?
Steve
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