Sean and I learned a lesson this weekend when mixing colors for our invites. We printed a digital proof of the invites and mixed the paint at my kitchen counter top, under a fluorescent task light. We got the colors pretty close and printed the first layer of all the invites...It wasn't until the next morning when all of the prints were lying in the sunlight that I noticed that they were a much brighter orange than planned. We brought out the proof and compared it to one of the prints in the natural light and voila! Check out the color difference (above)! To make sure we weren't totally color blind we compared the same two images under the fluorescent task light - and the colors were a much closer match (below).
The moral of the story? Mix your paints in the natural light, so that you can really see what they look like!
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