matchmycolor LLC and the association freieFarbe e.V. publish the spectral colour libraries of the HLC Colour Atlas on matchmycolor's cloud system. This makes free colour directly accessible to a larger professional user group.
Maxim Siniak, Business Development Manager at matchmycolor: "This is the first true cloud solution for open colour standardisation, providing a comprehensive solution for colour management from brand design to final product. matchmycolor Colibri® software connects design and production, enabling ink or colour matching from digital inkjet samples. We are starting in the print, paint and coatings industry, where Colibri enables cross-industry colour management and quality monitoring throughout the supply chain. And we expect the platform to be used across different production workflows."
"Digital Data Colour Management, based on open standards for cross-industry data exchange, has great potential not only for digital printing but also for the paint, coatings, plastics and other industries where colour reproduction is crucial," explains our association member and project coordinator Jan-Peter Homann.
The currently integrated solution are spectral libraries for the freieFarbe HLC Colour Atlas and the freieFarbe HLC Colour Atlas XL. The data is based on spectrophotometric measurement with subsequent optimisation to the respective Lab target value. This achieves a data accuracy of DeltaE00 < 0.1 for all colours. This provides users with a universal, easy-to-understand, consistently calculable and licence-free solution for their cross-process colour management, for which real colour samples are also available with the printed atlases.
A found colour solution can be easily adapted to any workflow using colour libraries from the print, coatings, paint, plastics or other industries, and used to create master and dependent colour libraries for cross-industry colour communication and matching. For example, a reference created for a print and packaging application could be easily adapted and applied to a plastics or coatings application to ensure brand colour consistency across a variety of product, packaging and collateral types.
An important next step: we plan to also create spectral colour libraries for the spherical geometry commonly used in the textile industry.
