Thanks to all who answered! The reason I asked this was (indeed) to know what important libraries I'm missing in SwatchBooker...
I'll ask the same question on the Scribus list ;-) Olivier Le 08/01/11 05:21, Christoph Schäfer a écrit : > On Donnerstag, 6. Januar 2011 18:19:51 Olivier BERTEN wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I was wondering in real life graphic design what color libraries other >> than Pantone people actually use... >> >> NCS, RAL, HKS someone? >> >> Olivier > Salut ! > > It really depends on where you live/work and your area of work. > > Pantone is ubiquituous, but even Pantone needed to create separate palettes > for different purposes (e.g. printing, painting etc.). > > RAL is a de-facto standard in Europe when it comes to industrial design or > painting, but is less used in printing. > > HKS is a "standard" designed exclusively for printing and wide-spread in > Germany and some neighbouring countries. > > NCS is being used in architecture, interior and industrial design. I don't > know anyone who uses NCS for print or web design. > > Focoltone, Toyo and DIC are Japanese colour libraries and, as far as I know, > rarely used outside Japan. > > Trumatch is just another way to describe CMYK process colours. > > Some commercial applications, like those from Adobe, Quark and Corel also > contain additional libraries, like ANPA (outdated) or DuPont SpectraMaster > (CorelDraw -- maybe because some specialised print shops use them). > > This is just a cursory overview, of course. I hope others will add their own > experiences. > > Cheers, > > Christoph > _______________________________________________ > CREATE mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create > _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
