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Color: Daylight

This document discusses color and different types of illumination. It provides spectral energy distribution curves for various illuminants that are sometimes used as substitutes for natural daylight, including average daylight, average sunlight, and noon sunlight. It also discusses paint mixing and matching colors, noting it is necessary to use the specific recommended raw materials and proportions to ensure an exact match with a sample, and that matching can be difficult, especially for pastel colors, due to challenges measuring small quantities accurately.

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Color: Daylight

This document discusses color and different types of illumination. It provides spectral energy distribution curves for various illuminants that are sometimes used as substitutes for natural daylight, including average daylight, average sunlight, and noon sunlight. It also discusses paint mixing and matching colors, noting it is necessary to use the specific recommended raw materials and proportions to ensure an exact match with a sample, and that matching can be difficult, especially for pastel colors, due to challenges measuring small quantities accurately.

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COLOR

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3. AV. DAYLIGHT
-4. AV. SUNLIGHT
1. AV. DAYLIGHT
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2. NOON SUN
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(LUCKIESH)
.C. I. ILLUMINANTS
- 6,500 K
PLANCKIAN
DISTRIBUTIONS
0.7 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.4
WAVELENGTH IN MICRONS
1 micron =
10,000 angstroms =
1/10,000 centimeter
FIG. 4-13. Spectral energy distribution curves for illuminants sometimes con-
sidered as substitutes for natural daylight.
Paint mixing. When a painted surface of a certain color is desired, it
is often possible to select satisfactory colors from the stock samples found
on manufacturers' color cards. However, if the manufacturers' stocks do
not include the desired color, and the painter wishes to mix his colors,
mixing guides are available which suggest the proportion of various raw
ingredients for each of the paint chips included. (See page 4-6.)
To be sure of an exact match with the sample selected, it is necessary to
use the specific raw materials and proportions recommended and to check
the match using the illumination under which it will be observed. In
mixing small quantities (a pint or less) it is sometimes difficult to measure
accurately the relatively minute quantities of certain raw materials re-
quired and for this and other reasons it is often difficult to make a close
match. This is particularly true of high value, low chroma (pastel) colors.
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