From: Pavneet Arora <pavneet_arora@waroc.com>
To: Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: RAL colours
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2015 12:00:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150404160039.GO9095@darjiling> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <73D5DBF2-E4B8-458D-9A3B-E3114D058837@fiee.net>
Many thanks Hraban!
This is great insight into the printing world. Of course, Pantone has a
dominant position on this continent at least, but as you stated, its
proprietary nature keeps the palette from being distributed easily.
So the question remains: if the X11 colourspace is found inadequate, is
there another one that we might look for inspiration to create decent
spot colours for document processing? Even if RAL colours are used for
varnish, does that mitigate the use of their RGB values for other
paints? Note, that I am not seeking exact calibration of colours, say
for branding across different media; just a more expressive palette for
print applications.
Unfortunately, I don't have access to the Adobe products that you
mention, and in any case would just want a convenient set of colours
inside ConTeXt to create documents on the fly.
For this type of work, are there any other "open source" palettes that
we might look towards?
Warm regards.
On 04Apr15, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> Am 2015-04-04 um 17:31 schrieb Pavneet Arora <pavneet_arora@waroc.com>:
>
> > 1. Is the RAL colour space a decent one for printing purposes? What
> > would be disadvantages, if not?
>
> No, it’s not. RAL colors are defined only for surface colors, like lacquer (varnish? paint).
>
> Printing colors work differently, they’re mostly transparent.
> A parallel to RAL in printing colors would be Pantone (or HKS in Germany, Toyo in Japan).
> But these are copyrighted, so we would be most probably not allowed to ship a library of these.
> (If I need some spot color, I look up the CMYK/RGB mix in Photoshop or InDesign.)
>
> > 2. Does colo-imp-ral.mkiv exist already?
>
> That would make no sense IMO.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-04 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-04 11:31 Pavneet Arora
2015-04-04 11:42 ` Hans Hagen
2015-04-07 9:10 ` Alan BRASLAU
2015-04-04 15:34 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2015-04-04 16:00 ` Pavneet Arora [this message]
2015-04-06 4:11 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2015-04-06 8:32 ` luigi scarso
2015-04-06 14:11 ` Pavneet Arora
2015-04-06 14:16 ` Pavneet Arora
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