[2J0]

This is big business.

Naming colours is a huge money spinning scheme.

Pantone has been given a monopoly because... Because no reason!

Forget open source as in beer software for the moment and let's write truly international canonical colour name reference.

I will get this going personally next month with anyone willing. I can support expenses and organise support and removal of all chores. I can ship the necessary tooling to participate. The project must he nonprofit by nature but I am fully equipped with the legal resources to trade donated time for real sweat equity first in line for being proportionally paid without affecting the nonprofit organ.

I love the idea of what you could achieve with the royalty income - what happens when the ODSS graphics programme worlf gets a no strings income and can be hiring and tooling the enterprise wetware necessary for the first rate conditions that only the big companies enjoy. Non profit charity organisations don't deprive their own people much anything. Sure enough for real is a helluva long shot but anyone? Shoot the breeze and scheme at least possible to collaborate via true accurate color rendition with a little bit of setting up I'm comfortable with. This is exactly the sort of thing that m6 late confounding partner wished our enterprise would be doing if our exit fell thru and his passing sure did (unnecessarily the route wasn't seen by a phalanx of attorneys highly motivated by closing fees. Ancient history now but I am speaking with genuinely passionate excitement at the fundamental principles and practice of the kind of business that is a strategic economic accelerator. I've decades of experience in media to lecture on why this is so crucial for business especially in the smaller business strata.

[egypturnash]

I think there’s a perfectly good reason for their nigh-monopoly: Pantone has been clawing their way to the top of the space of talking about color for a little under sixty years now, with a constantly-updated set of references that they managed to get into every commercial artist’s toolkit for a big part of that span of time.

That said a quick check suggests that the average corporate lifespan is anywhere from 20-60 years, depending on the list, so they may be ripe for disruption.