Hi Christoph, many thanks for your continuous work and congratulations to become a standard. Shared your message on Open Source Design https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/freecolour-hlc-color-palette-becomes-a-din-standard/500 <https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/freecolour-hlc-color-palette-becomes-a-din-standard/500>, would be good to have your expertise there as well.
Cheers, Heiko > Am 01.12.2017 um 04:36 schrieb Christoph Schäfer <christoph-schae...@gmx.de>: > > Hi all, > > > > I have some incredible news for you. > > > Yesterday freieFarbe/freeColour received a message from the German industrial > standards organisation (DIN) that our proposal for an open standard for "Open > Colour Communication" based on the HLC colour model (aka as Lhc) has been > accepted and will become a German national standard soon (because we have > prepared this carefully during 2016 and 2017). > > > What does this mean? First, it will no longer be an initiative by a tiny > non-profit organisation, but a national standard, and since DIN is very > influential internationally, it will become a de-facto standard in other > countries as well. Plus, it may be possible to make this an ISO standard via > DIN. > > > In addition, DIN will support the formulation of the standard and our work > with substantial sums, not the least because the creation of a standard and > pushing its way through all the respective instances and expert checks is > expensive (would've been 25,000 EUR in our case, which has been reduced to > zero, because it's an open and non-commercial project). We will also receive > some money for meetings, travel expenses etc. from DIN. > > > One of the reasons we got so far is support by parts of the printing industry > in Germany and Switzerland. The prototype of the printed colour reference, > which we presented to DIN, was only possible thanks to a donation of inks by > an international manufacturer of digitial printing machines. We're currently > cooperating with ink manufacturers in Germany and Switzerland to establish > ink formulas for HLC colours that cannot be reproduced in CMYK, aka as spot > colours, so printing companies can actually order spot colour inks by just > inserting the HLC colour code in their order forms. > > > The printed colour reference has the form a ring binder. Colours are sorted > by their H-values (H=Hue) in steps of ten. Luminacity (L) uses steps of five, > and chroma (C) also steps of ten. We plan to refine this later to also > present the H-values in steps of five. > > > This is a real colour system and not just a colour collection like Pantone or > RAL. Most importantly, it is a free and open alternative to Pantone & co, > which is not only better, but also supported by a national standards > organisation and some major players in the industry. There are no licensing > costs to pay for anyone who wants to use the colour system, not for software > producers and neither for the ink mixing formulas. The latter is important, > because vendors like Pantone ask for a lot of money from ink producers for > the mixing formulas, whilst the open HLC system is gratis. > > > The PDF version of the colour reference and the digital colour palettes will > be published under a CC licence (CC BY-ND 4.0). The printed colour reference > will cost some money to cover the production costs, but it will be much > cheaper than the ones from Pantone & co, because we only need to cover our > expenses and do not intend/aren't allowed to as a non-profit organisation to > commercialise it. Moreover, everyone else will be free to print their own > references, and there are no trademarks involved. > > > Another important aspect is that the HLC colour system, being a national > standard, will be very hard to attack legally by commercial vendors like > Pantone or RAL, who are known to play hardball when it comes to competition. > They would have to take on DIN, which I'm sure they'll think about twice. > > > We'll start with Germany and Switzerland, because that's where most of our > members and supporters are from, but we plan to release an English version of > the colour reference as soon as the colour system has been formally adapted > as a standard. > > > Currently, an older version of the HLC palette is already included in Scribus > 1.5.3+ (L*a*b*) and the latest LibreOffice (sRGB). And speaking of Scribus, > the juicy bit is that the colour reference will most likely be produced with > Scribus 1.5.4svn, because it offers the highest colour precision for fill > colours (64 bit). No other DTP software comes close in this regard. > > > > Christoph > _______________________________________________ > LibreOffice mailing list > LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
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