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Color for Designers: Ninety-five things you need to know when choosing and using colors for layouts and illustrations
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Color for Designers: Ninety-five things you need to know when choosing and using colors for layouts and illustrations

by Jim Krause
September 2014
Beginner content levelBeginner
240 pages
4h 22m
English
New Riders
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Chapter 11. Digital Color

74 The WYSIWYG Dream

WYSIWYG—what you see is what you get—is an acronym/sentence often used in reference to an all-too-elusive dream held by designers and illustrators: the dream of knowing that the layouts and illustrations we create on our computer monitors will look the same (or very nearly the same) when viewed on other people’s monitors and when printed.

WYSIWYG is a fantasy—for now, anyway—since monitors are manufactured and calibrated according to a variety of specifications and standards. And also because the challenges of finding perfect color matches between on-screen pixels and on-paper inks is a hurdle that those involved in the advancement of computer and print technologies have yet to overcome.

Still, ...

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