On 16 May, 20:36, Andy Cap wrote:
On 16 May 2007 12:06:43 -0700, wrote:

Varying monitor settings make these charts way off. Oxford blue looks
black on here. The page doesnt even say what colour temp to view it
with, let alone setting up the monitor right, correcting for gamma
etc. Theres no way youre going to get a match using that, or even
close.

I've had Dulux mix colours up a few times, and its always been either
spot on or very close. Important to clean the sample before scanning
it & clean the target wall too. Unfortunately I'm told that browns are
the weakest area for dulux colour matching.

Might be difficult lugging your window down there though! The paper
sheets with colours on may be your best bet.

I dont know what youre doing, but I have had car paints mixed to match
as well.

NT

That's true of course but the light grey I use for restoring telephone exchange
equipment is pretty accurate on my screen. It would be always be possible to
match something to the colour of the window, possibly from a selection of colour
cards and take that along.

Andy

You're lucky - some monitors wll be set right, and some wont but will
match on a few colours anyway, but there are several variables all of
which are routinely off to way off, so these charts should be treated
with a hundredweight of salt.


NT