But Pantone Red 1115 is the same regardless of where you get the color
chart. True, the color as viewed on a monitor make look different.
This is also true with the Dockers or ICI numbers. Those colors are
formulated to specific portions of basic colors. Triumph Conifer
Green; or "TRue" Signal Red made with the correct formula will look the
same to all. Well, that isn't true. How you perceive a color may be
different than how I do. That is particularly true of Blues & Greens.
But that is another subject.
Bottom Line - A color you like is the best way to go... m2cw.
Later,
Carl F. Musson,
You can't tell which way the car went
by just looking at the road...
TR3A's - TS25264L ('58 Almost Daily Driver)
& TS81802LO - ('61 Concours d'Wannabe)
Tampa, Florida (USA)
http://www.arts.usf.edu/~musson/triumph/
<http://www.arts.usf.edu/~musson/triumph/>
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Gentry [SMTP:tgentry@execpc.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 1998 2:25 PM
To: 'Robert M. Lang'
Cc: 'triumphs@autox.team.net'
Subject: RE: BRG paint
>>If you are going to spray your car, spray it a color that _you
like_. <<
I agree 100%. Personally, it doesn't matter to me if the car is
the original color, as long as it's a color I like. I've had numerous
comments on the color of my TR-6, all good. More than one person has
said something along the lines of, "If they didn't come in that color
they should have."
>>I would like it if there was a real color standard so you
could
say: it's 1115 Pantone Red. Then we could all "see" the same
color (in that
it would be repeatable).<<
The problem here is that we don't all "see" the same color when
looking at the same object. We would need color meters to actually
check, and then a color simulator to see for ourselves what the color
looks like. Incidentally, the color meters already exist and give a
reading showing the intensity of each primary color. Some colors are
impossible to reproduce on CRTs so the simulator might take some doing.
Tom Gentry
Life is too short to drive boring paint jobs!
'96 Ford SVT Cobra Mystic #1345 (the coolest paint ever, and not
available at the local body supply)
'72 Triumph TR-6 OD ('78 Ford Dark Jade Metallic, because I want
it that way)
'59 Triumph 10 Sedan (mostly primer with hints of the black to
come)
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