Is using a smartphone color app accurate?

Is using a smartphone color app accurate?   Ever been captivated by a color in your surroundings? Maybe it’s a brightly colored flower or a mural that stopped you in your tracks. Trying to remember …

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How do you Measure Color Accuracy?

An illustration depicting the CIELAB colour model.

How do you Measure Color Accuracy? The vast majority of the human population is extremely sensitive to differences and inconsistencies in color. Intuitively, we are able to sense when a color is ‘off’. However, when …

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What is RGB Color?

The RGB model shows overlapping red, green, and blue. When all three colours overlap, they form white.

What is RGB Color? Introduction to RGB Color The RGB color system is one of the most well-known color systems in the world, and perhaps the most ubiquitous. As an additive color system, it combines red, green, …

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What is Delta E or ΔE

Two orange swatches are shown side by side. They different slightly in colour.

What is Delta E or ΔE Delta E, ΔE or dE, is a way of measuring the visible difference, or error between two colors mathematically. It is very useful for sorting “closeness” of paints to …

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What is HEX?

What is HEX? HEX is just an alternative method of communicating RGB colors. Instead of each of the red, green and blue channels being represented by numbers from 0 to 255, they are represented in the hexadecimal number …

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What is CMYK Color?

What is CMYK Color? Introduction to CMYK Color The CMYK color model, also known as process color, was first popularized at the turn of the 20th century. After extensive experimentation in the 1800’s, it was …

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What is HSL Color?

A colour wheel depicting values and hues

What is HSL Color? Introduction to the HSL Color System One of the most common ways to communicate color is through visual systems like charts, where each color has its own unique set of co-ordinates. …

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