Mr. Doody (Doody)
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Username: Doody
Post Number: 320
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Friday, July 26, 2002 - 12:29 pm: | |
thought i'd post an answer for the archives here.
how the comparison was performed:
* using a 1996 Pantone Color Formula Guide (i disclose that becasue you shouldn't use guides this old, generally speaking - the color chits will change subtly over the years).
* two caucasian anerican males (more than half the US male population has some sort of color blindness problem) both with better than 20/20 vision.
* against a 1999 355 with PPG paint (not Glasurit)
* in direct July sunlight midday (12:00-13:00).
we came up with 123C, which is 15 parts PANTONE Yellow (93.8%)and 1 part PANTONE Warm Red (6.2%).
this was definitely the closest match but was not entirely dark enough. 1235C (14.5/1.5 ratio) was clearly too much red.
sorry, there were no CMYK values on this particular PANTONE publication (i have a newer one with CMYK, but can't find it - c'est la vie.
i'm redoing my garage, and i plan to paint some of the room's various oddities in yellow (a few poles, the cement skirt around the edge, etc. subtle stuff.
hope this helps someone someday :-). i'll update the posting if i do any more math on this.
doody. |