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Color Perception

The perception of color is influenced by a number of factors, with your brain as the strangest one. There is much more to it than pure physics…

Strategic Insights

If you swapped Coca-Cola red with
Target red, what would happen?

02/10/2026
It might sound like blasphemy: swapping brand colors. And some people might accuse me of heresy by just thinking about that possibility. But hear me out: there is an experiment that supports this these, that […]
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Did a two-year-long, real-life experiment reveal the magnitude of the Smallest Actionable Difference?

29/09/2026
We need a new metric: the ‘Smallest Actionable Difference’ (SAD), to know which difference in brand color reproduction will turn off consumers and therefore hurt trust and sales. But lab experiments can’t determine this, since […]
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Our mind not only plays tricks on us,
it even invents reality…

04/08/2026
You probably thought what a silly question that is in the header image. “That’s Coca-Cola, obviously!” But check again, read the letters on that can out loud, very carefully, one by one… Did you notice? […]
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Beyond the P1/P2 light booth:
What color actually looks like on the shelf

07/06/2026
If you work in printing, or if you are a brand owner, print buyer, or designer who cares about the quality of print products, you probably know very well what the press control station or […]
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Why are print buyers holding single-use print jobs to a higher standard than the reference they use?

18/09/2026
Serious question: why are print buyers holding disposable FMCG packaging to a higher standard than their reference: their copy of the Pantone color guide? Why would consumers – who are not color savvy, typically looking […]
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It’s proven: color differences can confuse consumers! 
Well… if the colors are some 50 dE00 apart…

18/09/2026
If you are a regular reader of my blog or my LinkedIn posts, you’ll probably know I have been questioning the claim that color differences confuse consumers and negatively impact sales. And guess what: I […]
Strategic Insights

Tolerances in brand color reproduction:
one size – fits all?
Why printing needs expectation management

26/08/2026
When talking about tolerances for the reproduction of brand colors in print, you often hear just one number. Whether it’s 2, 3, or 4 dE00, it’s just one number. And we have to ask ourselves: […]
Strategic Insights

Probabilities and priors
How a maths theorem defines brand and product recognition

18/09/2026
While on vacation, I finished reading the book ‘Everything Is Predictable – How Bayes’ Remarkable Theorem Explains the World’ by Tom Chivers. And yes, you may question my choices of books, but I have to […]
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We need a new metric:
the smallest actionable difference (SAD)
JND and JAD don’t cover consumer behavior in shops

18/09/2026
‘JND’, the ‘just-noticeable (color) difference’, is a core concept in color science. Next to that one, there is also ‘JAD’: the ‘just-acceptable (color) difference’. But these are not sufficient, if you ask me. That’s why […]
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The biggest print quality experiment ever?
And nothing happened???

18/09/2026
Do you remember my article from last fall about the redesign of the Oreo logo, which featured a 10+ dE00 difference between the old and new versions? Both being used jointly on the shelves? Ah! […]
Strategic Insights

The wisdom of the crowd has spoken, again!
Confirming first test: myth busted

18/09/2026
Did I already mention that I love LinkedIn? Not just to keep in touch with people I know, but also to find and share interesting information. Plus, it’s also an excellent place for me to […]
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The web embraces OKLch (OKLab),
when will print follow?
A better way to describe color

29/08/2026
Science evolves, based on experiences, experiments, and new insights. And that includes color science. Although the use of CIELab color description is fundamental to current color specification and reproduction, CIELab is ‘icky’, as John – […]
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The Impact of Color on Brand Recognition:
Re-evaluating the 80% Claim
A guest post, by Google Gemini Deep Research AI

04/05/2025
Insights4print.ceo is my personal blog. But for once, I had to accept a guest article… Earlier this week, I read a newspaper article about the ‘deep research’ options that several AI tools now offer. And […]
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And no one called it a brand’s worst nightmare…
(11 dE00 between adjacent packages)

29/08/2026
I love LinkedIn. It’s a place to keep in contact with old friends and meet new friends. It’s a place where much technological, business, and scientific information is shared. And it’s a great place to […]
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The biggest print quality experiment ever?
Brand Colors IRL: the Oreo case

26/07/2026
It’s probably – or even better: certainly – not intentional, but Oreo is running the most extensive real-life study on print quality. Why, you might ask. Well: they changed their logo, including the logo color, […]

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