From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: Pavneet Arora <pavneet_arora@waroc.com>,
mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: RAL colours
Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2015 13:42:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <551FCE3F.8020009@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150404113110.GN9095@darjiling>
On 4/4/2015 1:31 PM, Pavneet Arora wrote:
> Of and on, I have struggled to find a colour space that is expressive
> enough for printing, but convenient to access through ConTeXt for
> day-to-day usage. I find with X11 that the emphasis on screen skews the
> colours to be brighter than what is desired, especially if one is
> dealing with coloured stock---say beige kraft---as I am doing with my
> current bit of typesetting.
>
> In this process I have come across the RAL colour space:
>
> http://www.ral-farben.de/content/application-help/all-ral-colours-names/overview-ral-classic-colours.html
>
> whose values can be conveniently (sort of) accessed at:
>
> http://rgb.to/ral/page/1
>
> For my immediate needs, I have simply created a set of:
>
> \definecolor[<colourName>][h=HHHHHH]
>
> However, I am wondering if it might make sense to have a
> colo-imp-ral.mkiv? So my questions would be:
>
> 1. Is the RAL colour space a decent one for printing purposes? What
> would be disadvantages, if not?
>
> 2. Does colo-imp-ral.mkiv exist already?
it's not in the distribution so it doesn't exist
> 3. If not, would others find it useful to have a colo-imp-ral.mkiv? If
> it doesn't then I would be happy to prepare one and submit it.
just go ahead
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-04 11:42 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 [this message]
2015-04-07 9:10 ` Alan BRASLAU
2015-04-04 15:34 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2015-04-04 16:00 ` Pavneet Arora
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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