The ANSI colors are realisable as printable spot colors on decals and product labels, but ANSI did not address how to render them in typical document printing. Most of the ANSI colors are out of gamut for sRGB. Z535.1 specifies these colors in Munsell HVC and CIE 1931 xyY illuminant C coordinates. The colors used in our manuals are only Red, Orange, Yellow, Blue at present. The ANSI standards include color specifications (ANSI Z535.1-2006) for safety notcies. domestic, so we follow ANSI standards for these admonishments. Those users exposed to color are most likely viewing the PDF on a computer, or printing it on their own inkjet or color laser printer.Ī portion of the color content is graphic panels for DANGER/WARNING/CAUTION/NOTICE, and representation of product decals and labels of those same hazard classes. For lack of a more compelling model, the color space chosen is sRGB. At some point in the future, we may publish in color (probably using Xerox or HP laser engines).įor recent works, we've been using color, where convenient, and just leaving it enabled in the PDFs. Frame 7.1 Solaris (Frame 9 Win7 available).Īlthough the manuals I work on are print-published only in grayscale (600 dpi bitmap, actually), we make them available on the web as PDFs (which could be in color).
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