RGB Value for Inks?

[Pan5N3]

I'm wondering if there is some way to get or figure out the RGB or other digital value of inks.  The explanation of why is somewhat long, but you might be interested if you are in the same boat as me. 

 

At work, I am assigned to 5 major clients.  For each client, I like to use a different ink.  That way, I can flip through my book and find the notes for that customer.  A while ago, I started using small labels (1" x 0.5") and folding the over the edge of the page to act as tabs to allow me to find notes on a specific customer easier.  So write notes about customer A and then put a tab on the page so I can find them quickly

 

To create the tabs, I fire up my word processor, set it up for labels (Avery 5167 / 8167 if interested), type the name of a customer on a bunch of the labels and then fill in a background colour.  Rinse and repeat until I have created a bunch of tabs for each customer.  [E.G, page has 80 labels, make 16 for each of my 5 customers],  .  The background colour represents the colour of ink I use for each customer.  Easy enough to do for blue, red, green and black.  Just pick a generic version of those colours and it does the job.  Not great, but it works.  The trouble comes when wanting to do something like Diamine Oxblood or Edelstein Garnet or Smoky Quartz.  Only think I can think of is a lot of trial and error but that takes a long time and is not great.  So if there was a way to get, or figure out a digital representation, it would be great.  I'm likely going to have to take on a couple more customers and have run out of primary colours, so I'll have to start using my more fun colours.   

 

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

 

 

[Penguincollector]

Inkswatch has the hex codes for inks in their database, if that’s useful to you:

 

Inkswatch 

 

 

[Karmachanic]

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[yazeh]

When I do my review, I scan either the swatch/ or text and then use either a Digital color meter or MS Word's font color /more colours/RGB sliders eye dropper, or use Inkswatch.

However, note depending paper, pen, nib etc, you'll get different RGB values every time.

Hope it helps and good luck  

[Mercian]

  On 11/10/2024 at 5:31 AM, Pan5N3 said:

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

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I'm a cheapskate.
So, as an alternative to expending the time (& printer ink) to mess around with a word-processor and a printer, I would be minded to experiment with the following process, which can be done on an ad hoc basis any time that you have made any client notes and so wish to add the appropriately-coloured tag to a particular page of your notebook:

1. Use your FP to make a small swatch of the appropriate ink for that client on a small piece of paper★;
2. put the swatch on to a long-ish piece of Scotch tape, leaving enough tape to fold over the swatch to attach the tape to both sides of the page edge. In this way, the tape should completely cover the swatch.

If you have folded the Scotch tape over the entire (small) swatch, it ought to protect the ink-swatch from any potential interactions with water/damp fingers/etc.

 

In addition, you could place the 'tags' on your pages so that they are not all aligned at the same place on your pages.
You could e.g. place them so that they descend 'down' the pages as you attach them (like the A-Z cutouts on old address notebooks), or place each tag so that all of client A's tags are at the top of the page; client B's tags are all placed one level down on the page; client C's tags are all at the third level down the page, etc.

 

Most offices are going to be happy for you to keep a Scotch-tape dispenser and some small scissors somewhere on/in your desk. Although this may not be the case if your employer expects its human resources to practice 'hot-desking'.

 

You would need to keep an 'index table' of these coloured swatches somewhere (maybe inside the front of your notebook?), with each client's name written next to 'their' colour-swatch - but then that's also true for the printed-label method.

 

Slàinte,
M.

 

★ to expedite the process of making your 'labels' by this method, you could consider colouring-in a large-ish swatch of each client's ink on some dot- or line-gridded paper, and then cutting out small pieces of that swatch to Scotch-tape to your pages as the need for them arises.

[I-am-not-really-here]

Color converter table -  https://www.rapidtables.com/convert/color/hex-to-rgb.html

[Pan5N3]

  On 11/10/2024 at 5:38 AM, Penguincollector said:

Inkswatch has the hex codes for inks in their database, if that’s useful to you:

 

Inkswatch 

 

 

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Sorry for the late reply - things got nuts.  That Inkswatch site is exactly what I was after.  Thank you for this!!!!!!

[Penguincollector]

  No worries, hope it’s useful!

[Pan5N3]

Very useful!  I'm updating my ink list to show the values.  Very helpful.  Thanks again