A couple of months ago I decided to cut some logos, in acrylic, for a friend’s company.  I looked on their site for some representative colors and figured I would run with what I found.

With the entire palette of colors available in RGB on the web you can choose almost anything.  At the same time, not every RGB color can be reproduced in physical mediums easily and, more importantly, cheaply.  With a couple of questions and some folks helpfully scanning their CSS I had ‘lightgrey’ according to the W3C and a color that looked somewhere between blue and cyan called ’29ABE2.’

I did some work to find matching colors using eyeballed comparisons at Tap Plastics, a few gifs on websites and some Pantone colors.  None of it really worked out.  For this project I ended up deciding that using transparent acrylic and a ‘close enough’ version of light blue would work. There definitely needs to be some good mapping from various acrylics to RGB and/or Pantone.

You know what will be the next killer product?  A toddler-friendly digital camera that doesn’t have crap for output.  Someone with the requisite skillset needs to get to work.

Yes, that blurb sure isn’t what the tagline implies.  But really, this is what I want.  I assume there’s some stupid trade-off/problem related to the shutter or getting a CCD that is easy to work with.  Until this magical time I am going to have to give my kid access to a Panasonic Lumix.