United StatesNow Available: Spectro by Variable + Pantone® Color Subscription by Variable. Users are now able to access more than 16,500 Pantone colors directly through the Spectro by Variable app when they subscribe to a Pantone Color Subscription within. Created with frictionless color communication in mind, the Spectro by Variable app connects to the Spectro 1 and Spectro 1 Pro devices, allowing color professionals to achieve professional-grade color matches and view deep color data anytime, anywhere. About the Spectro 1 and Spectro 1 Pro Devices: Spectro 1 is a compact, affordable color measurement tool for accurately measuring and communicating color at the professional and industrial level. Using patented technology, the Spectro units are true spectrophotometers that deliver accuracy and repeatability comparable to expensive benchtop spectrophotometers—for a fraction of the price. Features: Scan, match, and compare colors View spectral curves for scanned colors Achieve exact matches with spectral curve and LAB values Have access to dozens of brands like Behr, Benjamin Moore, Dulux, PPG, Sherwin-Williams in the palm of your hand View matches under four different light sources including A, F2, D50, and D65 (Incandescent, fluorescent, horizon, and noon daylight) Include 2 & 10 degree observations Store scans and scan data Export scan history, inspection history, and saved colors Save and export spectral curve data in 10 nm increments between 400-700 nm Create and store standards through the Saved Colors features Supports multiple dE formulas And much more!
Good not great
I haven’t used it too many times but the times I have it’s close but not close enough for me. When I use it on known paint colors it does list the correct color as a possible match but not first choice match. User error?
United StatesCoating development
Using it to measure the density of black coatings. So far it’s working beautifully and giving us good measurable data.
United StatesRequires login
Another app that requires a log in just to see anything
United StatesiPhone app - great, with one caveat. iPad app - meh.
Update 8-23-22: App worked this morning but this afternoon informed me of a required 30mb download. After downloading, the app just crashes on launch. The same required download was done on my samsung galaxy s22 ultra and the app runs with no issues there. I don’t know what the deal is, since the update history on the appstore page gasnt been updated in almost a year. It’s definitely broken for now. The app is for all intents and purposes identical on iPad and iPhone. It works very well, but some effort to adapt the iPad app to landscape would be greatly appreciated. It’d be a 5 star rating with a proper IPad landscape mode and addition/correction of the issues noted below. The main caveat - lab plot scaling: The Lab plot when comparing colors is scaled weird. It doesn’t show the whole lab plot, but instead a ‘scaled down to best fit in viewing area’ sort of version. As most color-familiar people already know: L channel range is 0 to 100 a channel range is 128 to -128 b channel range is 128 to -128 some sources use 127 to -128 for a and b channels, i.e., adobe photoshop & Wikipedia I believe this is down to computational reasons rather than the mathematical model. Often the scaled extent of the lab plot display will exceed these values, especially the L channel: For instance, scanning the included white calibration tile as the “standard” (vs any other color) results in the top end of the L channel display being well above 100; in my testing it scales the display up to 158 at the top end. Seems like it’d be better to just show a standard lab plot and place the scanned standard and sample on the plot, rather than scaling the plot to some sort of “best fit”, or at least give the user a little radio button/check box to switch from scaled to non-scaled view.
United StatesRequires log in
Must create account to use.
United StatesCrash happy, needs landscape on iPad
Every time I tap a color chit to view details on the paint color, the app crashes for both iPhone and iPad. The iPad app needs to be landscape aware.
United StatesiPhone app - great, with one caveat. iPad app - meh.
The app is for all intents and purposes identical on iPad and iPhone. It works very well, but some effort to adapt the iPad app to landscape would be greatly appreciated. It’d be a 5 star rating with a proper IPad landscape mode and addition/correction of the issues noted below. The main caveat - lab plot scaling: The Lab plot when comparing colors is scaled weird. It doesn’t show the whole lab plot, but instead a ‘scaled down to best fit in viewing area’ sort of version. As most color-familiar people already know: L channel range is 0 to 100 a channel range is 128 to -128 b channel range is 128 to -128 some sources use 127 to -128 for a and b channels, i.e., adobe photoshop & Wikipedia I believe this is down to computational reasons rather than the mathematical model. Often the scaled extent of the lab plot display will exceed these values, especially the L channel: For instance, scanning the included white calibration tile as the “standard” (vs any other color) results in the top end of the L channel display being well above 100; in my testing it scales the display up to 158 at the top end. Seems like it’d be better to just show a standard lab plot and place the scanned standard and sample on the plot, rather than scaling the plot to some sort of “best fit”, or at least give the user a little radio button/check box to switch from scaled to non-scaled view.
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