Open Color Standard
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Standard
Efforts are under way to build and release an Open Colour Standard palette for release under a non-restrictive license daylesford accommodation or directly into the public domain. The palette is to be the first step towards a larger range of open colours. A tentative goal is to have a swatch book of 100 colours ready for the next Libre Graphics Meeting, accommodation, taking place in late May 2010. Ink testing and color development are set to take place during the first quarter of 2010, in hopes of creating a consistent gamut of inks which may then be used in the development of OCS palettes. A provisional visual identity has been created for the palettes. The logo
Palette
Current palette development is taking a physical-to-digital approach. Step one in this development is to isolate a gamut of colours with consistent spectrum across manufacturers. The goal of this step is to create a group of inks, beyond CMYK, which are compatible and interchangeable. Suggestions of inks to test are very welcome. Development of a proper spectrum analysis procedure is under way.
Once a gamut of compatible inks is found, mixing work will commence, focusing on colours not available or satisfactory in CMYK (eg: caucasian skin tone, brights, etc.). Further colours will be business developed based on suggestions, popularity and existing, freely distributed palettes. With a gamut of inks to work from and a defined mixing protocol (forthcoming), mixing should be an easily doable, low-barriers to entry activity. Thus, contributions to the palette will be something anyone can easily submit.
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Others Efforts
- Over 101 free and open source (GPL) color palettes for many applications are available on:
Rationale
- Pantone controls color and has full control over color schemes, names, and swatchbooks, making it impossible to ship pantone support in free and open source apps
- Fields other than print design (eg. the natural sciences, food science) which already use commercial colour matching systems could benefit greatly from and might be likely to adopt an open colour standard
- This is fun!
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Press
TODO
These are community items, and need your help
are complete:
- write press release (rejon + all)
- write community
- Create Standard (ginger + joncruz)
- Physical Ink/Spectrum Standard (ginger)
- Digital Container (joncruz)
- List standard here (ginger)
- Create Palette (ginger + joncruz)
- list palette here (ginger)
- along the way, list out and link to other similar or related efforts (all)
- Add press and other hits along the way (all)
- Add to the rationale along the way. (all)
- When standard and palette announcement (rejon + all)
- announce everywhere preferably before LGM2010 in brussels to draw attention to the conference (ideally 1-2 months out from LGM2010) (rejon + all)
