consistency in colour client choses? how?

[oshioyi]

hi, i'm doing a few colour variations for a logo design for a client. Obviously, the colour I have on my screen might differ on their screen depending on lcd monitor settings etc.

How can i verify that the choice she wants, is what colour i assign to the colour of the logo?

thanks.

 

[Raz0rBlade_uk]

i think you may need some kind of colour chart that you can send to your clients. as in a real one through the post

 

[legend2]

Well simply agree on the RBG?CMYK colors you will be using and thats it don't care about how it will differ

 

[cef]

Each of you has to set up your programs with ICC profiles for your respective monitors. In theory, that *should* work. In practice, success varies greatly. Color matching is the BANE of the design world. Entire books have been written on the subject.

HOWEVER --

If you're doing vector art, or art with only a few colors, use PMS colors - (PMS = Pantone Matching System, THE spot-color industry standard). Then, each of you could buy a hardcopy chart showing what the PMS colors look like in print, and you could work off of that.

If you're talking about photos, a zillion gradients, fancy filter effects, etc. PMS won't work. (That said, you *can* do gradients with PMS, but that's a whole different kettle of fish).

Hope that helps

 

[GHoD]

Why not use a chart like say, http://www.immigration-usa.com/html_colors.html
then the colour they pick u just paste the code of that colour in photoshop to get it ( i think), to be honest i never really thought it would make much diffrence? "web colours" should show as the same no matter what monitor you are using? Or atleast not a noticable diffrence.

 

[primacomputer]

Sit down with some Pantone colour chips and let them decide. Then take it over to a a nice colour calibrated machine, select that Pantone colour and show them that it matches. (Please note that this will probably not be an LCD. It will invariably be the old 17” CRT that came with your G4). Then print the logo on a Pantone approved postscript colour laser printer. Hold the colour chip, and the printout up to the screen and let the client see that they all match.

Then explain to them that the rest of the world, with their $200 made-in-china LCDs and $50 injet printers, will all see something different.

 

[cef]

Then explain to them that the rest of the world, with their $200 made-in-china LCDs and $50 injet printers, will all see something different.

:lol: ain't that the truth!