I have some existing vinyl graphics that need to replace, and I want to match the colors as closely as possible. Suppose I wanted to have solid color vinyl (like this) what sort of pantone matching system would I use. They have all kinds of color matching products to choose from. Process colors suck when exposed to UV, and the colors include a red a blue that probably exceed the gamut of CYMK so it would be solid colors.
if you can go back to the original source they may be able to advise the color number they used. i used this outfit to do a wall graphic logo. they mention color matching. but you may be talking about auto graphics.
It's car stuff. There's a lot of mythology about the colors, including some pantone colors that get repeated over and over again on the interweb.
People often default to royal blue, cyan, red or purple, cyan, red. But the blue is neither royal nor purple. It's more of a saturated periwinkle -- or dare I say, indigo. And the red isn't crimson.
People buy decals here to make a replica of a rare car. The geometry is good, but the colors are wrong. Since I have one of the rare cars, and need to replace some decals that have been lost to racing incidents, I'd like to reproduce the colors that are on my car, if possible. The original decals are NLA (no longer available), unless someone has a crate of new-old stock hidden in a warehouse in Munich.
my experience with solid opaque 3M vinyls is that they are not pantone based, you would probably need to go to a local sign maker to see a sample 3M color chart. We have done graphics for a tour bus- which was single sheet process printing vs multiple piece solid colors- not sure if this must be case when wrapping around multi plane shape like front end of car.
and 3M does have a 'periwinkle'
Thanks!
- mark 11-04-2009 7:52 am
if you can go back to the original source they may be able to advise the color number they used. i used this outfit to do a wall graphic logo. they mention color matching. but you may be talking about auto graphics.
- bill 11-04-2009 12:00 pm [add a comment]
It's car stuff. There's a lot of mythology about the colors, including some pantone colors that get repeated over and over again on the interweb.
People often default to royal blue, cyan, red or purple, cyan, red. But the blue is neither royal nor purple. It's more of a saturated periwinkle -- or dare I say, indigo. And the red isn't crimson.
People buy decals here to make a replica of a rare car. The geometry is good, but the colors are wrong. Since I have one of the rare cars, and need to replace some decals that have been lost to racing incidents, I'd like to reproduce the colors that are on my car, if possible. The original decals are NLA (no longer available), unless someone has a crate of new-old stock hidden in a warehouse in Munich.
- mark 11-04-2009 5:29 pm [add a comment]
my experience with solid opaque 3M vinyls is that they are not pantone based, you would probably need to go to a local sign maker to see a sample 3M color chart. We have done graphics for a tour bus- which was single sheet process printing vs multiple piece solid colors- not sure if this must be case when wrapping around multi plane shape like front end of car.
- mb 11-04-2009 9:42 pm [add a comment]
and 3M does have a 'periwinkle'
- mb 11-04-2009 9:44 pm [add a comment]
Thanks!
- mark 11-04-2009 9:55 pm [add a comment]