Re: interior design for color viewing
Re: interior design for color viewing
- Subject: Re: interior design for color viewing
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 12:46:05 EST
In a message dated 2/3/04 12:24:39 PM, email@hidden writes:
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I talked to an interior designer today who said a client had requested
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she paint a room "18% grey" so they could view photography.
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I explained to her that, first of all, 18% grey is really a value of
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luminance and not necessarily color, and secondly, I don't know that a
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neutral grey with a luminance of 18% grey is recommended for a color
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viewing space. However, I don't know what is recommended.
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18% gray is really dark... if the goal is to make the room suitable for CRT
use by eating all available light, that would do it. But 18% gray (Munsell
gray) is not my recommendation, I usually suggest somthing much lighter, and if
they want a wainscott, then perhaps something closer to Munsell gray on the
walls below the three foot level...
Just bring the company's paint samples back with you, and under a proofing
light compare them to a Kodak grayscale (or equivalent), for neutrality. Just
keep in mind the the yellow of the photo paper effects the lightest couple of
patches. Ideally you would read the perferred patches with a spectro, and at
least check that the a and b components in their Lab values were near zero.
C David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision Inc
email@hidden
www.colorvision.com
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