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About us
The non-profit association freieFarbe e.V. is an association of German and Swiss colour professionals. We would like to give tips and advice on how to create matching colour in all areas of application.
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gamutmap.com - Online HLC Colour Atlas XL
The HLC Colour Atlas XL is online A free online database showing the HLC Colour Atlas XL for numerous gamuts has been published by proof GmbH. You can immediately see the RGB and CMYK colour values of the selected output situations for each colour in a mouse-over field. You can choose from a myriad of output variants in RGB and CMYK. The whole thing...
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DIN SPEC 16699 is officially published
The 44-page PDF is bilingual in German and English and can be downloaded free of charge from Beuth Verlag, which distributes the DIN standards in Germany, after a short registration. Click here to download DIN SPEC 16699. Who needs a DIN SPEC? Of course, it is not to be expected that every print shop and every advertising studio will immediately...
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About standardisation and colour standards
Standardisation and standardisation are important building blocks of our economic system, because without them we would sink into cost-intensive chaos in the world of units of measurement, screws, plugs, technical components, ... . Every manufacturer would try to implement its solution in submarkets. If there was a winner, it would impose its standard on us all. This is of course not possible with the above demand for standardisation...