If you want to move quickly in the color list in the pop-up menu, you can use 'Page Up' and 'Page Down' key on your keyboard.Ĭolors displayed on my monitor are different from colors in my color guide.įor better color accuracy keep your monitor calibrated. We plan to add RAL D2 Design library and PANTONE FHI library. Is a demo version of ColorLinker available?ĭo you plan to add other spot color libraries to the ColorLinker? more than 20) there is no equivalent color in selected library. If color has difference more than 10, we recommend not to use this conversion. We can see some very small differences such as in blue colors, somewhere else we can not see differences (such as in yellowish colors). Usually, if deltaE is less than value 6, we can say colors are almost the same. In the ColorLinker case, it is the LAB color space. It is the difference or distance between two colors. It depends on the closest color which determines the difference delta E in LAB color space. Usually HKS K and PASTEL colors does not have close equivalent in other libraries such as Pantone PMS, Goe or NCS.

HKS K library has 88 colours and PANTONE Pastel Coated has only 154 colors. In the case of RAL to PANTONE conversion it means that for the 213 colors of the RAL K7 there are 1866 colors of the PANTONE Solid Coated available and vice versa. Why does sometimes RAL to PANTONE conversion and then PANTONE to RAL (or vice versa) not match?ĬolorLinker always shows the closest color in the conversion (RAL to PANTONE or PANTONE - RAL). ColorLinker shows only the delta E differences between two colors (PANTONE Solid Coated to PANTONE Goe Coated and Pastel Coated, RAL, HKS, NCS and KEIM, RAL to PANTONE (Goe, PMS Coated, Pastel Coated), HKS, NCS, KEIM, HKS to PANTONE (Goe, PMS Coated and Pastel Coated), RAL and NCS etc.). PANTONE Solid Coated Plus library has 1866 colors,ĭoes ColorLinker shows any color values in LAB, sRGB, CMYK etc. How many colors are there in ColorLinker totally? Colors were measured by X-Rite spectrophotometers (i1, eXact, ColorMunki and Ci6X). What kind of color conversions does ColorLinker enable?ĬolorLinker 1.8.x enables all color conversions between PANTONE spot colors (Formula Guide Solid Coated Plus Series 2016, PANTONE Goe Coated and PANTONE Pastel Coated), RAL spot colors (K7 or K5 library), HKS K, NCS Index 1950 Original (NCS S) and KEIM libraries (Avantgarde, Historic, Monochrome, Natural Stone and Exclusive).ĭoes ColorLinker use original PANTONE, RAL, HKS or NCS libraries? The license key will be sent to you within a few business hours. When can we receive the license key?Īfter your purchase you will receive an email with the License Key for the selected license.

Ral to pantone conversion