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> Your last sentence is just wrong. How do you express metallic gold 817 using RGB. Which of those components gives you how metallic it is? It's not even 1-1
by chrisseaton 4y ago
> Your last sentence is just wrong.
How do you express metallic gold 817 using RGB.
Which of those components gives you how metallic it is? It's not even 1-1 as it depends on the paper used! Their own books show how lossy it is - they show the corresponding CMYK and it often barely matches.
> within-gamut
Ah so you already knew it wasn't true.
- pxx 4y agoThe cardinality of one set is much bigger than the cardinality of the other one. Pantone 871 is mapped to #84754e. If you see #84754e and also get the instruction "use only Pantone colors", it is not ambiguous!
- chrisseaton 4y agoSomeone needs a lookup table to map those back - that’s what you’re paying for. They aren’t claiming to ‘own’ the colours.