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Monitors: is sRGB still standard?

26/05/2024

Last year, I got a new monitor at work, a 4K monitor, nice! My regular job (the one that pays the bills) is not in the printing industry, so ‘color’ is not at the top […]

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Sharing your brand color guide publicly:
worst or best practice?

21/12/2023

Brands are proud of their brand logo and their brand colors. They spend a lot of time and money to get that perfect logo. And a lot of time is spent on creating a brand […]

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A crucial new job profile:
The CxC (Color eXchange Coordinator)

10/01/2025

Initially, I had planned to write an article about two issues I spotted in Black Friday publicity folders I received last week. Two issues that could have easily been prevented with a little bit […]

Strategic Insights

ECG: brand owners want it!

05/11/2023

As I showed in the previous article, ECG printing (expanded or extended color gamut) is feasible from a technological point of view. Even more: it has lots of benefits. And guess what: most brand […]

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ECG Printing: The Perfect Storm is near

09/05/2025

When looking at packaging printing, ECG (expanded or extended gamut printing) is hot. Many people are talking about it, and the promises seem convincing: you can simulate much more brand colors with a set of […]

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The color deviation nobody is talking about…

03/09/2024

Brand owners demand lower color deviations, with myths and unproven claims being their main argument. Recently I heard that 1,5 dE00 should be the norm, which is not necessary, in my opinion. A box of […]

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How long should a visual press check take?
(a few seconds vs. as long as it takes)

14/11/2023

Earlier this year, I published an article with studies showing how long consumers interact with a package while shopping. On average, the ‘Total Fixation Duration’ was less than a second. Coca-Cola cans? One-tenth of a […]

Strategic Insights

Not all CxF is created equal:
it comes in several flavors

14/11/2023

When talking about brand colors, and brand color reproduction, many people are looking at CxF as the way to go. It is also one of the directions Project BBCG shows for sharing brand color specifications. […]

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“Project BBCG is good, but only for tech-savvy designers” – Au contraire, my friends! Plus: opportunities for printers, prepress houses

22/04/2023

In a recent discussion on LinkedIn, someone said that Project BBCG is a good system, but only for tech-savvy designers. While I agree with the first part, I strongly disagree with the second: it’s even […]

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How broken is color?

13/01/2026

You may have seen some posts on LinkedIn about the latest Pantone guides, about issues with those guides. Many people shared pictures of differences between old and new guides, we discovered homeopathic-level ink formulations (which […]

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Pantone’s homeopathic level ink formulations

21/10/2025

The new Pantone guides have arrived! Designers probably celebrated this – additional colors to choose from!!! – but in the printing industry, the reactions were a little bit different. In just a few days, there […]

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How our brain perceives, evaluates color: system 1 vs. system 2 (dual process theory)

07/07/2025

The best book I’ve ever read, which I recommend to everybody, is ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’. A book on behavioral economics, by professor and Nobel prize winner Daniel Kahneman. And contrary to what you might […]

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The real world isn’t flat! And how this influences color…

29/05/2025

The world isn’t flat! I know, it may sound silly, but bear with me for a minute, and you will see it might not be that silly… The complete quality process in the printing industry […]

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Automatic ICC-based conversions don’t treat brand colors well… Go for GCR!

10/04/2023

Just before Project BBCG – A Better Brand Color Guide was launched, there were some interesting discussions on LinkedIn, with some people relying 100% on ICC color management, having absolute faith in ICC based color […]

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“Can we integrate Project BBCG?” – You already have! And we can do even more

10/04/2023

Since the launch of Project BBCG, only three weeks ago, several vendors contacted me with the same question: “Can we integrate Project BBCG into our software products?” My standard answer used to be: “You already […]

Brand Colors

Monitors: is sRGB still standard?

Sharing your brand color guide publicly:
worst or best practice?

A crucial new job profile:
The CxC (Color eXchange Coordinator)

ECG: brand owners want it!

ECG Printing: The Perfect Storm is near

The color deviation nobody is talking about…

How long should a visual press check take?
(a few seconds vs. as long as it takes)

Not all CxF is created equal:
it comes in several flavors

“Project BBCG is good, but only for tech-savvy designers” – Au contraire, my friends! Plus: opportunities for printers, prepress houses

How broken is color?

Pantone’s homeopathic level ink formulations

How our brain perceives, evaluates color: system 1 vs. system 2 (dual process theory)

The real world isn’t flat! And how this influences color…

Automatic ICC-based conversions don’t treat brand colors well… Go for GCR!

“Can we integrate Project BBCG?” – You already have! And we can do even more

Why are print buyers holding single-use print jobs to a higher standard than the reference they use?

We need a new metric:
the smallest actionable difference (SAD)
JND and JAD don’t cover consumer behavior in shops

Can I trust this Oreo?
(a print bubble story about framing, priming and no one caring enough to comment)