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Angela,

such a neat little book doesn’t exist, because we have many different RGB spaces and many different CMYK spaces.
If it should ‘exist’ then it’s a fake.

On the the other hand, it’s possible to show common spot colors by Lab numbers, by sRGB numbers and by AdobeRGB(98) numbers: http://www.fho-emden.de/~hoffmann/swatch16032005.pdf

Many spots (altogether more than 1100) are out of gamut for the monitor.
CMYK values are found by loading a page of this doc by Photoshop in Lab mode (!), choosing one of the CMYK spaces, and showing the CMYK numbers by the info palette.

Best regards –Gernot Hoffmann

"AK" wrote in message

I saw a neat little book which I foolishly did not buy at the time and am now regretting it. It was a book of thousands of color swatches with colors
that complement each other and it gave the corresponding RGB, CMYK numbers or Hex values. Does anyone know of or have anything similar or something you can recommend?

Regret not. 🙂 There are more color charts out there than one can name. Pantone is the historical source of authority for color and tint samples (in our business). Their chart/tool is included with several software packages. Photoshop has Pantone color palettes built-in, and of course you can get the CMYK, RGB and HEX codes right off the color palettes in Photoshop.

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Angela,

such a neat little book doesn’t exist, because we have many different RGB spaces and many different CMYK spaces.
If it should ‘exist’ then it’s a fake.

I don’t think Angela was asking for a lesson in what is unlikely, or your opinion regarding what is impossible on a CRT. If one were to believe you, then we wouldn’t be doing spot colors, would we?

On 5/6/06 11:48 AM, AK commented:

I saw a neat little book which I foolishly did not buy at the time and am now regretting it. It was a book of thousands of color swatches with colors that complement each other and it gave the corresponding RGB, CMYK numbers or Hex values. Does anyone know of or have anything similar or something you can recommend?

TIA

Angela

Angela,

I haven’t gotten it, but my only guess would be Pantone’s Color Bridge Guide which has replaced the long gone solid-to-process guide. I believe it "tries" to include RGB/Hex color values, CMYK values and spot color. They have several other books too, so you might just browse their site. http://www.pantone.com

inez

PS_if you’re a member of creativepro.com you might go through their site to shop pantone for a discount.

Regret not. 🙂 There are more color charts out there than one can name. Pantone is the historical source of authority for color and tint samples (in our business). Their chart/tool is included with several software packages. Photoshop has Pantone color palettes built-in, and of course you can get the CMYK, RGB and HEX codes right off the color palettes in Photoshop.

The great thing about this book was the way it showed colors that went together well……something I am not so good at, but it sounds a little work with my friend google, I might just find something. Thanks!

A

On 5/6/06 6:58 PM, AK commented:

Regret not. 🙂 There are more color charts out there than one can name. Pantone is the historical source of authority for color and tint samples (in our business). Their chart/tool is included with several software packages. Photoshop has Pantone color palettes built-in, and of course you can get the CMYK, RGB and HEX codes right off the color palettes in Photoshop.

The great thing about this book was the way it showed colors that went together well……something I am not so good at, but it sounds a little work with my friend google, I might just find something. Thanks!
A

Well, this isn’t what you’re talking about since it’s strictly Pantone and doesn’t include RGB, but I highly recommend this for beginning to learn why, when and where to use what color(s); what colors symbolize and "feel like" to the viewer; and, it includes a huge amount of color combinations separated into categories like Romantic, Sensual, Robust, Classic, Fanciful, Cool, etc. I continue to find this book and invaluable source of inspiration: Pantone Guide to Communicating with Color by Leatrice Eiseman. I believe it’s quite inexpensive now through Amazon.com.

Happy coloring;)
inez

Well, this isn’t what you’re talking about since it’s strictly Pantone and doesn’t include RGB, but I highly recommend this for beginning to learn why,
when and where to use what color(s); what colors symbolize and "feel like" to the viewer; and, it includes a huge amount of color combinations separated into categories like Romantic, Sensual, Robust, Classic, Fanciful,
Cool, etc. I continue to find this book and invaluable source of inspiration: Pantone Guide to Communicating with Color by Leatrice Eiseman.
I believe it’s quite inexpensive now through Amazon.com.
Happy coloring;)
inez

That sounds perfect, thank you

iehsmith wrote (to be deleted after some days):

‘I continue to find this book and invaluable source of
inspiration: Pantone Guide to Communicating with Color
by Leatrice Eiseman.’

Eiseman says:
‘Red, yellow and blue are primary colors.
Green, orange and violet are secondary colors.’
http://tinyurl.com/f87rh
Complements are, according to the graphic, blue-orange,
red-green, purple-yellow.

All this is terribly wrong for all technical color systems (RGB, HLS, HSV=HSB, CIELab, CMYK).
The book is definitely not recommended.

The roots of this misinformation might be found in ancient color systems:
http://www.colorsystem.com/grundlagen/aad.htm

Best regards –Gernot Hoffmann

After further Google searches:

Mrs. Eiseman can get easily a degree
‘Master of Propaganda’.

Serious publications, kind of alphabetic order,
authors or editors, are mostly found at amazon:

Billmeyer, Saltzman, Roy S.Berns
Bruce Fraser et al.
Phil Green, Lindsay MacDonald
Giorgianni, Madden
Mark Fairchild
R.W.G.Hunt
Johannes Itten
Henry R.Kang
Küppers
Dan Margulis
Abhay Sharma
Narciso Silvestrini, Ernst Peter Fischer

G.H.

On 5/7/06 10:20 AM, commented:

iehsmith wrote (to be deleted after some days):

‘I continue to find this book and invaluable source of
inspiration: Pantone Guide to Communicating with Color
by Leatrice Eiseman.’

Eiseman says:
‘Red, yellow and blue are primary colors.
Green, orange and violet are secondary colors.’
http://tinyurl.com/f87rh
Complements are, according to the graphic, blue-orange,
red-green, purple-yellow.

All this is terribly wrong for all technical color systems (RGB, HLS, HSV=HSB, CIELab, CMYK).
The book is definitely not recommended.

The roots of this misinformation might be found in ancient color systems:
http://www.colorsystem.com/grundlagen/aad.htm

Best regards –Gernot Hoffmann

I don’t remember the subject having anything to do with technical systems or color science. I stand by my recommendation for the visual, psychological, physiological effects and uses of color for art/design.

inez

On 5/7/06 12:59 PM, iehsmith commented:

On 5/7/06 10:20 AM, commented:

iehsmith wrote (to be deleted after some days):

‘I continue to find this book and invaluable source of
inspiration: Pantone Guide to Communicating with Color
by Leatrice Eiseman.’

Eiseman says:
‘Red, yellow and blue are primary colors.
Green, orange and violet are secondary colors.’
http://tinyurl.com/f87rh
Complements are, according to the graphic, blue-orange,
red-green, purple-yellow.

All this is terribly wrong for all technical color systems (RGB, HLS, HSV=HSB, CIELab, CMYK).
The book is definitely not recommended.

The roots of this misinformation might be found in ancient color systems:
http://www.colorsystem.com/grundlagen/aad.htm

Best regards –Gernot Hoffmann

I don’t remember the subject having anything to do with technical systems or color science. I stand by my recommendation for the visual, psychological, physiological effects and uses of color for art/design.

inez

Sorry; I should have said æsthetic instead of (or along with) visual…

Gernot, what do you have against the simplicity of the age-old, standard color wheel for visual reference? Must everything always be technical?

"AK" wrote in message

I saw a neat little book which I foolishly did not buy at the time and am now regretting it. It was a book of thousands of color swatches with colors
that complement each other and it gave the corresponding RGB, CMYK numbers or Hex values. Does anyone know of or have anything similar or something you can recommend?

TIA

Angela

http://colorblender.com/

"AK" wrote in message

I saw a neat little book which I foolishly did not buy at the time and am now regretting it. It was a book of thousands of color swatches with colors
that complement each other and it gave the corresponding RGB, CMYK numbers or Hex values. Does anyone know of or have anything similar or something you can recommend?

TIA

Angela

http://www.siteprocentral.com/html_color_code.html