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This is a cool idea but I don't think it works quite right, matching RGB color is a perceptual thing, there's no absolute "starbucks green" that you could displ
by joeld42 14y ago
This is a cool idea but I don't think it works quite right, matching RGB color is a perceptual thing, there's no absolute "starbucks green" that you could display on a monitor. Even a calibrated monitor in controlled lighting conditions is still calibrated to something (like a film stock or a certain printer profile).
I think a better way to present this would be to show a photograph which incorporated the logo (e.g. a Coca-Cola billboard in a city on a sunny day) with the grey logo, and then have the user color-correct the logo until it matched the perceptual reference of the context that it was in. The "coca cola red" in RGB values would not be pure red but I think the user would probably have a better chance of making it "look correct" in the photo (thus matching the color values in the original photograph) than trying to match it without any context. Would make a neat experiment, too.
- imkevinxu 14y agoGreat thought! Context truly is important, the idea we were going for was that you might be used to seeing a certain logo/color on your monitor so you would just try to guess that color hue again. Also we tried to make the algorithm somewhat lenient to take into account the different calibrated monitors. Also keep in mind this was just built in 24 hours at a hackathon, tons of things we can and will do better! Thanks again!