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Color Blindness Software Tools for Artists

Published on October 12, 2007 in software and tools. 1 Comment Tags: art, artist, calibration, CMYK, color, color theory, design, free, freeware, graphic design, graphics, Mac, Mac OS X, OS X, resources, software, tool, web, web design.

Color blindness screenshot Just stumbled across these handy Mac OS X software applications to help designers and artists simulate the effects of color blindness on-screen: Sim Daltonism and Color Oracle.

Sim Daltonism works as a floating palette which converts an area under your mouse cursor to the selected type of color blindness — it works similar to the Apple Digital Color Meter sampling utility. There are 8 different types of color blindness to test. Color Oracle works as a menubar item which converts the entire monitor to the selected mode of color blindness, but only offers the three most common forms.

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Pantone bought by X-Rite

Published on August 26, 2007 in art and tools. 0 Comments Tags: Apple, art, artist, calibration, CMYK, color, design, graphic design, graphics, Mac, Pantone, printing, RGB, software, tool, web links.

Pantone color swatch book Color matching wizards Pantone have been bought out by color management gizmo maker X-Rite (yeah, I never heard of them either). Seems they have been collaborating for some time now, with the Pantone Huey being one of their joint efforts. The Huey is a pretty cool, essential and affordable tool, so perhaps this is a good sign of things to come (see my review of the Pantone Huey monitor calibration tool).

Pantone swatch books are essential tools for any artist/designer working with color, but it’s good to see that the hardware side will no doubt be more aggressively pursued by this merger, since the new owners are hardware based. Such a huge part of the work of many artists and designers create these days is done on the computer monitor, and proper calibration for predictable print output is essential.

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Use A Pantone Huey Monitor Calibrator On Dual Monitors

Published on October 19, 2006 in Apple/OS X, software and updates. 2 Comments Tags: Apple, calibration, gadgets, Mac OS X, monitor, OS X, Pantone, reference, tip, tool.

A quick post regarding an issue brought up by a comment to my original post about the Pantone Huey and dual (or multiple) monitors… Continue reading 'Use A Pantone Huey Monitor Calibrator On Dual Monitors'

Pantone Huey Monitor Calibration Tool

Published on September 8, 2006 in Apple/OS X, Illustration, reviews, software and tools. 4 Comments Tags: Adobe, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Apple, art, calibration, CMYK, color, color theory, CRT, design, gadget, gadgets, graphic design, graphics, Illustration, illustrator, InDesign, LCD, Mac, Mac OS X, monitor, OS X, Pantone, Photoshop, printing, productivity, resources, review, software, tool.

I recently purchased one of these Pantone Huey monitor calibration gizmos to enhance my on-screen ability to proof colors for accuracy when printing. In short, it’s awesome and worth every penny. Read on for more… Continue reading 'Pantone Huey Monitor Calibration Tool'