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<\/p>\nThe company Spot Nordic from Reykjavik has launched an interesting colour system onto the market: the so-called \u201eSpot Matching System\u201c contains 470 regularly graded colour tones, which are offered as colour samples for various production processes (e.g. proof printing, offset printing, screen, TV). The conversions are selected in such a way that the colour tone is matched as precisely as possible in each case. The aim is to achieve the best possible cross-media compatibility of fixed colour tones (in contrast to this, the colour results are different for HKS K\/N and Pantone C\/U). As with our HLC colours, the basis is the Lab coordinates of the selected colour tones.<\/p>\n
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The print conversions exist as colour fans, posters and downloadable PDFs. The high price of the prints is striking, e.g. the uncoated colour fan with the 470 SMS colours is offered for 299 EUR. This is nothing more than a screened four-colour print without spot colours - comparable other CMYK atlases and fans are sometimes offered for less than 50 EUR. The basic sRGB target shown above is available free of charge (pdf link below). A PDF file in sRGB, showing the 470 colour samples with their respective names, costs 29 EUR.<\/p>\n
For an annual fee of 420 EUR, you can register as an SMS user and then receive the above sRGB PDF chart free of charge, reduced prices for the CMYK products and download access to further colour values and tables.<\/p>\n
The website appears graphically immature, is not responsive and contains long sections of text in which one first has to search for the (quite numerous) meaningful contents.<\/p>\n
Uniform cross-media colour is a sensible approach - but its success may be doubted here.<\/p>\n