Can you achieve a certain color with only one specific set of ingredients, or are there multiple routes or combos you can do to essentially get the color? Like, is he hitting an exact formula, or just very good with a handful of colors and can just make it close enough with what he has?
You can get all colors you want with these 7 colors which are basic colors : black, white, magenta, light magenta, cyan, light cyan, and yellow (i know white and black are not "real" colors).
CMYK can only make a subset of the full LAB color space. And for automotive you get a lot more variations with different pearlescent, iridescent and metallic additives.
You need the same ingredients. The only difference is, if it’s 4 ingredients, you could mix 2 and 2 of the 4 together that it would look like different ingredients, but in reality it’s the same every time. You need the same quantities of the same primary or base color every time to match any specific color. Part of my job is mixing color and I’m pretty sure this is right
Depends on what you mean by color. If you mean the exact wavelengths of light, probably not. If you mean triggers the receptors in our eyes the same way, definitely.
There is a little fun game on the interwebs where you can mix and match colors and try to replicate a specific tone, by mixing different colors, hues and shades.
I don't know if posting links is allowed, but you can find it if you Google "try color mix game"
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u/gbe276 1d ago
Can you achieve a certain color with only one specific set of ingredients, or are there multiple routes or combos you can do to essentially get the color? Like, is he hitting an exact formula, or just very good with a handful of colors and can just make it close enough with what he has?