Comment by qubex
2 days ago
As somebody who works in the coatings industry and is aware of the extremely complex field of colorimetry this horrifies me.
2 days ago
As somebody who works in the coatings industry and is aware of the extremely complex field of colorimetry this horrifies me.
Although it's not such a mean comment, this post would be much better if you gave some details and explained what you think the work here doesn't address, and why it's important and so on.
hThis is in the site guidelines: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
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’.
author here. splash is for screens, not coatings
That’s all fine and well until somebody says “okay that’s great for the letterhead, but give me a half tone for the business card divider”.
luckily this only happens once a week