This is a fascinating video of what it takes to set one of the Colour standards for the printing world, the classic Pantone guide.  Whilst modern spectrophotometers are now used by advanced printers to measure colour in LAB space, the classic Pantone book is still a key reference for printers and brand owners.  Can you see the colour differences that the Pantone technicians can?

Its fascinating how different people judge colour, and so standardising to a known control is critical to colour consistency, rather than any one individuals subjective view of colour.  Colour management is a hot topic amongst leading label printers like Mercian Labels, and with our latest colour management upgrade the issue of colour ‘matching’ its at the top of our agenda right now.

If you want to do a self assessment of your own judgement of colour, then try this online Farnsworth-Munsell 100 hue test.