The same six colours said as bare numbers and then read through the sRGB profile the file carries, plus a ramp from light to dark and a sweep of hues in CIE L*a*b*: colour that still means the same thing on another screen and on a press.
Three numbers written into a file say only three numbers: what they look like is left to whatever shows them. The rows on this page say colour two other ways: through the ICC profile the file carries, so the numbers mean what they meant when the document was made, and as CIE 1976 L*a*b*.
L*a*b* is worth a look even if you never use it, because lightness and colour are two separate numbers in it: the ramp on this page changes one number, and the sweep of hues changes the other two. This is what a document does when the colour on the page has to survive the journey to somebody else's screen or press.
The same document is written twice, once in each language. Both files are shown in full, with the code coloured on the server, and can be copied in one click.
The same document is written in each of these languages. Open the one you want to look at.
| Before | 113,403 bytes |
|---|---|
| Now | 42,897 bytes |
| Saved | 62.2 % |
Not one mark on the page changed. See every document measured.
Swatches in each of the three ways to say a colour — a grey as one number, a screen colour as three, a printing colour as four inks — each captioned with the instruction actually written into the file, and one mid-grey said three ways.
Two inks the press carries on a plate of their own, each at ten strengths, a piece of work set in both, and the crosses used to line the plates up — drawn in an ink every plate answers to.
Eight choices of plate among the four usual inks, each with the small program that shows it printed underneath, and two inks the press carries itself used together, every strength of one against every strength of the other.
A chart of house colours the file carries, and a drawing whose sixteen numbers are places in that chart rather than colours. The same drawing is shown twice through two charts: repainting a whole brand is one table, not every drawing.
One pattern that states no colour of its own, laid down in five colours and in five strengths of one press ink: the fill says what colour to lay it down in. Beside them, the same hatch made of patterns that carry their own colours, which is one pattern per colour.
One drawing on three pages: a press sheet stating where the ink runs, where the blade falls and what is worth keeping, with corner marks; the same sheet cropped to the finished page; and a landscape page that states a quarter turn clockwise on an upright sheet.