(Deutsch) 09/19: Zwei Mal freieFarbe in Kiel
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(Deutsch) Artikel im Linux Magazin 09/2019
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Einladung zur Jahreshauptversammlung 21.09.2019
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Spot Matching System – Pantone Contender from Iceland
Spot Matching System – Pantone Contender from Iceland Spot Nordic, a company from Reykjavik, offers an interesting colour system: The “Spot Matching System” contains 470 regularly graded colour shades which are offered as colour samples of various production processes (e.g. proof printing, offset printing). The conversions are selected in such a way that the colour […]
Picular.co – “Google, but for Colors”
Picular.co – “Google, but for Colors” A new and interesting approach to search for colours is presented by picular.co. This tool uses Google’s image search and relies on the terms associated with the images. The dominating colour tone is extracted from the picture and shown as a large swatch. Example: “sky” yields several (mostly) blue […]
Libre Graphics Meeting Saarbrücken
Libre Graphics Meeting Saarbrücken The Libre Graphics Community offers free alternatives to the commercial tools from Quark, Corel and Adobe. GIMP, Scribus, Inkscape, Blender and Krita can compete with the expensive solutions in terms of functionality. They run stable and are constantly expanded and further developed. The amazing thing is that the programmers work free […]
12th Dresden Color Forum 2019
“freeColour – it’s logical”
12th Dresden Colour Forum 2019 The logic of colour, colour in media Famous names such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Ostwald and Manfred Richter bear witness to the leading role played by Central Germany in the development of colour theory and colour theory to this day. The scientists there recently completed “FARBAKS”, a science […]
Visits to two trade fairs
European Coatings Show and Farbe, Ausbau, Fassade 2019 Two important colour-related trade fairs took place almost simultaneously at the end of March: the “European Coatings Show” (ECS) in Nuremberg and the “Farbe, Ausbau und Fassade (FAF)” in Cologne. We were on the road at both fairs. Pigment manufacturers were more represented at ECS than paint […]
Article in DIN magazine
In the January issue of DIN-Magazin a multi-page article about free ink and DIN SPEC 16699 has been published. It describes our suggestion of color communication (more advantageous than manufacturer collections) on the basis of open mathematical standards and shows the perspective that free color could change the world of color: thanks to open spectral […]
DIN SPEC 16699 is officially released
DIN SPEC 16699 is officially released The 44 page PDF document is written in German and English and published by Beuth, the sole distributor of the German DIN standards. You can download it free of charge after registering on the web site. Click here to download DIN SPEC 16699. Who needs a DIN SPEC? Of […]