Avery Alder
CREATOR
about 2 months ago
Project Update: Going For Blush
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Going For Broke has a signature colour. It's a faint pink. Depending on who you ask, it might be called blush, lotus petal, valentine's day, lace pink, millennial pink, or simply: pink. A little bit more playful and vivid than ballet slipper, but not by much.
The thing is, that's a tricky colour to nail in print.
When Going For Broke first adopted this signature colour, in CMYK terms, it was just the magenta slider set at 13%. Based on early tests from a couple card printers, it was bumped up to 15%. When the Backerkit succeeded and I was able to pay for the big print run, I was sent one final printed proof to make sure everything looked the way I wanted it to. Hm. The pink wasn't quite right. Close, but not quite. So I made one final change to the print files, bumping it up to 17% (but keeping it at 15% for digital; I just needed the colour to show up a little more vividly in print).
Fiddling over this detail also meant that there was time for one of the project's backers to catch a typo on Ben's card, meaning that I was able to correct it before it went into print. Thanks, Joseph! I'll be updating the Digital + DIY Kit some time in the next 1-2 weeks to fix Ben's card there as well.
The release timeline that I described here is still on track. Everything's just peachy! Well... more rosy than peachy. Blushy? It's a difficult shade to describe.
Going For Broke has a signature colour. It's a faint pink. Depending on who you ask, it might be called blush, lotus petal, valentine's day, lace pink, millennial pink, or simply: pink. A little bit more playful and vivid than ballet slipper, but not by much.
The thing is, that's a tricky colour to nail in print.
When Going For Broke first adopted this signature colour, in CMYK terms, it was just the magenta slider set at 13%. Based on early tests from a couple card printers, it was bumped up to 15%. When the Backerkit succeeded and I was able to pay for the big print run, I was sent one final printed proof to make sure everything looked the way I wanted it to. Hm. The pink wasn't quite right. Close, but not quite. So I made one final change to the print files, bumping it up to 17% (but keeping it at 15% for digital; I just needed the colour to show up a little more vividly in print).
Fiddling over this detail also meant that there was time for one of the project's backers to catch a typo on Ben's card, meaning that I was able to correct it before it went into print. Thanks, Joseph! I'll be updating the Digital + DIY Kit some time in the next 1-2 weeks to fix Ben's card there as well.
The release timeline that I described here is still on track. Everything's just peachy! Well... more rosy than peachy. Blushy? It's a difficult shade to describe.
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