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list and arrange the observe colors based on how they appear on the paper

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Oh, there’s a whole big complicated science that goes into identifying and categorizing color. If you were to observe a color document first under fluorescent lighting and then in natural sunlight you would likely see two different colors. Then, there’s the white paper itself. White is white, right? Compare two different pieces of blank paper together and you might see that there are different shades of white. This can affect how a color looks because cmyk printing is based on the light that is reflected off of the paper versus projected light such as a computer screen.

Then, there’s the subjectivity of our own eyes and minds. One person’s indigo blue is another person’s dark blue.

So, how do printers get around all that? How do they ensure that the shade of blue that someone sees on a screen prints the same on paper? It’s not easy!

One way is to use a pre-determined category of colors, chiefly the Pantone Color Matching System. This is not unlike when you pick a color at the paint store using those little sample strips, called swatches.

There are expensive instruments called spectrometers that can read a sample color and provide you with the cmyk values which would be useful when trying to design a new document based on trying to match an existing color.