[CREATE] What color libraries do you use?

[Olivier BERTEN]

Thanks to all who answered!

The reason I asked this was (indeed) to know what important libraries
I'm missing in SwatchBooker...

I'll ask the same question on the Scribus list ;-)

Olivier

Le 08/01/11 05:21, Christoph Schäfer a écrit :
> On Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2011 18:19:51 Olivier BERTEN wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I was wondering in real life graphic design what color libraries other
>> than Pantone people actually use...
>>
>> NCS, RAL, HKS someone?
>>
>> Olivier
> Salut !
>
> It really depends on where you live/work and your area of work.
>
> Pantone is ubiquituous, but even Pantone needed to create separate palettes 
> for different purposes (e.g. printing, painting etc.).
>
> RAL is a de-facto standard in Europe when it comes to industrial design or 
> painting, but is less used in printing.
>
> HKS is a "standard" designed exclusively for printing and wide-spread in 
> Germany and some neighbouring countries.
>
> NCS is being used in architecture, interior and industrial design. I don't 
> know anyone who uses NCS for print or web design.
>
> Focoltone, Toyo and DIC are Japanese colour libraries and, as far as I know, 
> rarely used outside Japan.
>
> Trumatch is just another way to describe CMYK process colours.
>
> Some commercial applications, like those from Adobe, Quark and Corel also 
> contain additional libraries, like ANPA (outdated) or DuPont SpectraMaster 
> (CorelDraw -- maybe because some specialised print shops use them).
>
> This is just a cursory overview, of course. I hope others will add their own 
> experiences.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Christoph
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