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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, th

• 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.