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900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692 (With Complete High-Res Scan)

51 points mdp2021 1 day ago 4 comments

Cider9986 1 hour ago | parent

Motorola uses pantone colors but I think the color is the least of their issues: https://m.gsmarena.com/motorola_signature_27_5g-14955.php

It turns out after a second of searching it's not really about that. What it is about I do not know how it helps the phone.

https://www.pantone.com/na/en-us/color-systems/pantone-color...

WillAdams 13 minutes ago | parent

It's a standard way to ensure that different printers print the same colour for branding purposes (unless of course, one is large enough to formulate and dictate one's own colour à la Coca-Cola and their red).

c.f.,

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1928117.Four_Colors_One_...

(or some similar text on 4-color process)

And of course, we all owe a great debt to Willis Carrier whose efforts to regularize temperature and humidity for the sake of consistent and accurate printing colour reproduction resulted in the invention of air conditioning.

jgdgj 34 minutes ago | parent

I'm impressed that the colours are still so vibrant, based on the photos from the books. Some extra context around restoration of of the book would help.

dofm 32 minutes ago | parent

I love stuff like this. The article mentions Werner’s Nomenclature of Colour which is a marvel. There is a wonderful Thames and Hudson book, Nature’s Palette, which includes Werner’s Nomenclature and expands on it by discussing how the nomenclature was produced, has illustrations of the reference plants and animals Werner used, etc.

https://amzn.eu/d/0injz69N

It makes for a great gift for an aspiring artist interested in natural themes, I think. Particularly when paired with Taschen’s The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel which is a similarly mesmerising historical reference:

https://amzn.eu/d/0hZ4IE2i