Open Color Standard

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This is the place to discuss the development of an open color standard that can free people from the grips of owners of color.

Spot colour for commercial printing is one gamut of colour in design. Specific inks available commercially to commercial printers are matched with the inks you're able to indicate in your digital artwork and which are represented on screen as you edit your design work.

Would it be possible to approach an international ink supplier such as Toyo Inks to see if they would like to open source their Colour Finder system. It offers an opportunity for them to have designers matching their inks directly through their colour matching system rather than through other proprietary matching systems which do not cover the complete range of colours available in Toyo inks.

For open source designers it means being able to specify artwork to commercial printers through a system they already understand and matching to inks they already use. What do you think? Colour Finder

Sounds like a good idea. Scribus can load color palettes (swatches) but we don't dare to create or distribute one for Pantone colors due to legal issues. There is some doubt if it is possible to restrict the use of colornames for certain colors as Pantone does, but we can't afford any hassle.

If Toyo or another supplier releases their palette under a GPL compatible licence, that would be fine. This does *not* have to be GPL, but maybe some artistic license which gives users the right to use and distribute the colors in unmodified form. --Avox 17:49, 25 Mar 2006 (PST)