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Con­vert CMYK swatches to Pan­tone num­bers in Illustrator

Con­vert­ing col­ors between color sys­tems is a never end­ing story for design­ers. Much of the con­vert­ing can be done by the method described in a pre­vi­ous arti­cle on this site. There is one con­ver­sion not pos­si­ble there, one that most design­ers are not aware of how to do eas­ily: How to find what Pan­tone color best matches their CMYK matches.

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Wall­pa­per : Geigy Chemicals

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A chem­i­cal can shown with this arti­cle on AisleOne inspired me to make this wall­pa­per which is free for you to down­load and use on your com­puter. Size is 1920x1200 px.

Wall­pa­per download.

Con­vert­ing col­ors between dif­fer­ent color systems

[This is a trans­la­tion of the arti­cle I wrote over a year ago in Icelandic.]

Con­vert­ing RGB col­ors to CMYK for print­ing pur­poses or Color Man­age­ment, is some­thing we designer have to deal with almost every day. It’s easy to get infor­ma­tion about Color Man­age­ment in books and on the web. I am not going to go through that here but con­cen­trate on other less com­mon con­ver­sions. Con­tinue reading…

Wall­pa­per : Font Anatomy

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For some time I have tried to get a reli­able infor­ma­tion about the indi­vid­ual parts of the char­ac­ters of the alpha­bet. The anatomy of type if you like. It was not so easy to find online. Still I found some and then some in var­i­ous books.

The prob­lem how­ever is I did not find any one source I was fully sat­is­fied with. Each one had some names miss­ing which the oth­ers had and so on.. Con­tinue reading…



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