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 consistent colour in all areas of application. In doing so, we rely on open standards that have long been integrated in the computer and would like to show: the computer is an ideal tool for colour, it can make colour free!
What is the problem?
At the moment, professional work with colour relies on commercial colour collections and colour books. Different colour samples are used for printing than for lacquer paint, wall facades, foil or textiles. Every manufacturer cooks his own soup. Hundreds of colour systems are hardly compatible with each other and cannot be calculated. The result is manual colour and system comparisons and laborious colour matching "by eye" - each time anew.
We would like to show alternatives to this equally common and old-fashioned way of working. We see the future in freely available mathematical colour models such as CIELAB or RGB. The advantages of free colour are huge and the perspectives incredible.
