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In case anyone is wondering: RGB HEX C4C0AA

by Donckele 6y ago

notum 6y ago
Thank you. Sites that waste my time with pay/signup walls should also give me a portion of their revenues.
- ChrisRR 6y ago
  Then you need to read the article. This is about trying to match the paint against a pantone reference paint. This user tried to get a hex value instead, which would be completely different depending on lighting conditions
  - OscarCunningham 6y ago
    Two paints can also look the same under some lighting conditions but not others.
grahamlee 6y ago
that depends very much on the lighting in which a picture of Apple Beige is taken, the colour space of the photograph, the colour temperature of the monitor, the display gamma…
- alpaca128 6y ago
  Does that really matter? When used in digital content the color will vary from one PC screen to the next anyway, and from what I know color matching real materials with such a precision is basically its own art form. My preferred color scheme most definitely doesn't look the same for me as for the designer with his color calibrated screen. But it's close enough that I wouldn't even consider comparing it.
  - grahamlee 6y ago
    > Does that really matter? That depends on what you want to do. If you want to represent Apple Beige _as it appears in a particular picture, on your display setup_, then no: if you want to do anything else using the Apple Beige colour, then yes. Saying "this object has the colour #123456" is not wrong, in that it's Not Even Wrong (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong). It's like saying that my weight is "moves the scales needle by 35°".
- pickpuck 6y ago
  The article has done the analysis and links to the closest Pantone color "Overcast" and on that page it lists C4C0AA as the hex color. https://www.pantone.com/color-finder/14-0105-TPG https://www.pantone.com/color-finder/14-0105-TPG But you're right -- with a color dropper, I'm getting all kinds of results, typically a darker ~999281.
rootusrootus 6y ago
I was, thank you! While color names are useful, if I wanted to reproduce this paint color at the local paint store it is more reliable to bring the RGB code. I have some colors in my house for which I have the name, but they couldn't find the actual reference. So they generated an RGB code with a color scanner they have, and now I keep a record of that in case I need more paint.
alejohausner 6y ago
An RGB triple does not describe a color unambiguously: it depends on the device used to display it. Devices have different red, green and blue light sources. I know it sounds like nitpicking, but we are talking about subtle differences in shades of beige, after all. An LCD display will have a white backlight, with some distribution of wavelengths, and each pixel has filters that pass a certain band of wavelengths (one band each for red, one for green, one blue). Different LCDs will use different backlights, with different filters. An OLED will have a three kinds of emitters, each with its own distribution of wavelengths. CRTs used to have three kind of phosphors that glowed with their own characteristic colors. Now, if you could give us the CIE XYZ coordinates of the color, or the CIELAB coordinates, that would be very helpful. They are device-independent.

In case anyone is wondering: RGB HEX C4C0AA

notum 6y ago

Thank you. Sites that waste my time with pay/signup walls should also give me a portion of their revenues.

ChrisRR 6y ago
Then you need to read the article. This is about trying to match the paint against a pantone reference paint. This user tried to get a hex value instead, which would be completely different depending on lighting conditions
- OscarCunningham 6y ago
  Two paints can also look the same under some lighting conditions but not others.

grahamlee 6y ago

that depends very much on the lighting in which a picture of Apple Beige is taken, the colour space of the photograph, the colour temperature of the monitor, the display gamma…

alpaca128 6y ago
Does that really matter? When used in digital content the color will vary from one PC screen to the next anyway, and from what I know color matching real materials with such a precision is basically its own art form. My preferred color scheme most definitely doesn't look the same for me as for the designer with his color calibrated screen. But it's close enough that I wouldn't even consider comparing it.
- grahamlee 6y ago
  > Does that really matter? That depends on what you want to do. If you want to represent Apple Beige _as it appears in a particular picture, on your display setup_, then no: if you want to do anything else using the Apple Beige colour, then yes. Saying "this object has the colour #123456" is not wrong, in that it's Not Even Wrong (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong). It's like saying that my weight is "moves the scales needle by 35°".
pickpuck 6y ago
The article has done the analysis and links to the closest Pantone color "Overcast" and on that page it lists C4C0AA as the hex color. https://www.pantone.com/color-finder/14-0105-TPG https://www.pantone.com/color-finder/14-0105-TPG But you're right -- with a color dropper, I'm getting all kinds of results, typically a darker ~999281.

rootusrootus 6y ago

I was, thank you! While color names are useful, if I wanted to reproduce this paint color at the local paint store it is more reliable to bring the RGB code. I have some colors in my house for which I have the name, but they couldn't find the actual reference. So they generated an RGB code with a color scanner they have, and now I keep a record of that in case I need more paint.

alejohausner 6y ago

An RGB triple does not describe a color unambiguously: it depends on the device used to display it. Devices have different red, green and blue light sources. I know it sounds like nitpicking, but we are talking about subtle differences in shades of beige, after all. An LCD display will have a white backlight, with some distribution of wavelengths, and each pixel has filters that pass a certain band of wavelengths (one band each for red, one for green, one blue). Different LCDs will use different backlights, with different filters. An OLED will have a three kinds of emitters, each with its own distribution of wavelengths. CRTs used to have three kind of phosphors that glowed with their own characteristic colors. Now, if you could give us the CIE XYZ coordinates of the color, or the CIELAB coordinates, that would be very helpful. They are device-independent.