pantone / cmyk
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- detritus0
A spot colour is just a single printed ink, right? It doesn't make any difference what colours you pick, or how you apply them, only if you decide to supply your printer with a specific instruction regarding the Spot, right?
(I'm kinda half asking here, because I'm not 100% sure myself).
It's probably good practice to try and make your starting colours specific Pantones (or, insert your preferred colour 'manufacturer here), and even to go back to a complexly illustrated logo and try and 're-render' some of the overlaid shaded layers as normal coloured non-overlays.
Where overlays and gradients etc are concerned, they're simply not compatible with specific Spot colours. They're more for few-colour logos in a few-Ink or special-finish-Ink environment.
I think :D
- Sorry - last line = "Spots are more for few-colour.. blah blah"detritus
- LOL@ few-ink!Spookytim
- Laugh at me all you want, but you know my neo Inglish approach is maxi for the win.detritus
- I knew what you meant, it made me laugh because I envisaged James sat there looking for his few-ink swatches.Spookytim
- "Hi, is that the printer? I've decided I want to print this in few-ink, do you have the facilities for that?"Spookytim