Re: [CR]Pantone color matching

(Example: Framebuilders:Brian Baylis)

Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 16:19:15 -0800
From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Pantone color matching
References: <601E1B8E735FBF4FA07BB6DBCF8F480B0137DC87@mail60nt.mitchell.com> <025a01c59946$1c532a60$fc0256d1@oemcomputer>


henox wrote:
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> Look, you go to your auto paint jobber or your painter, ask to see color
> chips, and pick the one you like. (this is why I've invested several hundred
> dollars in the DuPont Spectramaster color chip system and the Sikkens color
> selector system).
>
> Pantone is for graphics and not appropriate for picking bike frame colors.
>
> Hugh Enox
> La Honda

People, this isn't that hard to grasp... once again, I'm not talking about picking bike frame colors. I'm talking about what color Alex SiNGER Bleu Foncé (Dark Blue) is. This has _nothing_ to do with painting bikes! Realize that for example "Ferrari Red" is a concept and a mutually agreed upon color, not necessarily what color red an original Ferrari 166 Barchetta happens to be.

"Pick the one you like." is not really the answer I'm looking for here. "Pantone is for graphics and not appropriate for picking bike frame colors." Got to agree with you there, and not the point either.

Chuck Schmidt South Pasadena, Southern California

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