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Generally no, it doesn't matter if you're just displaying on (mostly uncalibrated) screens, or printing in CMYK on normal paper stock. It gets more interesting
by jon-wood 4y ago
Generally no, it doesn't matter if you're just displaying on (mostly uncalibrated) screens, or printing in CMYK on normal paper stock. It gets more interesting if you're producing things like brochures, in which you care about the texture and technique used to apply particular areas as well as the colour itself. Thing about things like the glossy lettering on a brochure which can't be represented as a set of four colours.
- ghaff 4y agoAnd the fact is that a lot of designers can get incredibly anal about tiny details of color/texture/etc. I remember back in undergrad when I was doing some press work, there was one poster that the designers had specified two different (Pantone) shades of dark neutral ink and I doubt anyone looking at the poster saw anything other than "black" for both of them. And before any developers throw shade on this sort of obsessiveness, remember stones and glass houses.
- jon-wood 4y agoI picked up a love of design obsession from the years I spent working as a developer in design agencies. A lot of it is very much focused on how a thing feels to whoever receives it, even they don't consciously notice that happening. Stuff like the paper stock or binding is only ever going to excite a professional designer, but even people with no education on this at all can tell the difference between a glossy brochure with thick textured pages and a cheap flyer printed for as little money as possible. Some companies even target the latter because they don't want to give the impression of being a luxury retailer.