Norway Vintage Posthorns - Colour Variations

Never saw this thread before but very glad I did. Two pieces of info in here I never knew about- Don's very useful Shade Analysis app and the site for converting these colors into a useable name.

As good as that app might be to determine the actual colour of a stamp, it may not always help.

Each catalogue editor uses his or her own definitions. If a stamp technically was printed in green ink and Scott calls it yellow, whereas AFA calls it reddish violet, the one thing it is not, is a green stamp. We will get threads "I Hit The Jackpot, I Have a Printing Error.' But to someone using Scott it is the common yellow stamp and to someone using AFA it is the common reddish violet stamp.

And while the Stamp Smarter tool IDs the many hues in an image, is 'speaking' computerese. In other words, it translates the image into one of 16,777,216 possible colors. And there is no guarantee that the image is actually capturing the real stamp colors.

Simple experiment. Try taking an image of the same stamp and background but change the ambient lighting. Run both images through Stamp Smarter tool... if you do you may never again trust a digital stamp image.
Don

Thanks guys. I definitely see potential limitations but it's a heckuva lot more in my arsenal than I had 2 hours ago. Hopefully I can figure out how the hex numbers relate for colors close to one another but not listed on that website.