Also, FWIW, if it looks like this GB really going to happen, I plan to order a color ring set from SP and match it to an LCARS back-lit graphic that I own from the original TNG set. So my final proposed colors may change slightly. The idea is try my best to verify the best possible match in person, since computer monitor colors are never entirely accurate. Perhaps I'll be able post pics of the SP samples next to my Okudagram to illustrate.
Wow! You would do that! That would be so awesome of you!
Thanks a lot for everything.
My pleasure. I would be delighted. Please just let me know, Moz, when if and when it's likely to move on to the GB stage and then give me a week or so to order the rings and verify the colors, so we have a good and accurate final mock-up for the official GB page.
There are color accurate pictures from the SP color ring here if that helps out.
Awesome. Thanks for alerting me to this thread.
My remaining concern is really just one of monitor calibration. I tend to calibrate my monitor fairly cool and others may have it relatively warm. So we all might be seeing slightly different colors. This would also have been affected by the white balance on the scans and the original SP images. So it's really hard to factor all of that out and know for certain.
Especially given that so many people seem interested in the blank set on this one (where it becomes all about the colors), it would seem important that the colors both a) actually look good together in real life and b) as best as reasonably possible evoke the original LCARS design and over all feel. Totally worth the investment to do an in-person color match, and I'm happy to make it.
Also, if I have all the color chips together in person, I can take a picture of them together in the same lighting environment in a single image and post them here, which should help give a more accurate sense of how they'll look together.
OK, based on comments from Divito and Moz, I have added a modifier set that greatly increases one's flexibility with this set and only requires adding a few extra keys (and no additional colors). This could be an optional add-on to a base 104-key.
I gave a few examples, but the possible permutations are many. (Commander Data could tell us precisely how many if here were here, no doubt.)
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I stopped counting permutations after 1024.
Consider me hacked for a blank set guaranteed and maybe one with legends, even though the legends wouldn't feel as authentic with all the logos it would still be badass!
Hehe. Cool. I don't actually own a DSA set right now. Can someone confirm that the B, C, and D rows (using the Cherry row-naming scheme) are interchangeable? Based on the diagram from SP (pasted into my mock-up), that looks like it would be the case. I just want to make sure that keys can be used interchangeably between the arrow and WASD positions, otherwise our add-on set doesn't make as much sense.
SP will not do the logos, we can get these from IMSTO and this will be a addon pack, which would most liekly ship separately from the GB. The point of this set is you have logo legends with matching colors for your set.
That sounds workable to me, but can IMSTO guarantee exact color matching to the SP swatches? If not, maybe you can dream up and alternative coloring scheme where all the keys with legends come in a particular color that would replace all the SP keys of that color, so matching wouldn't be an issue, and then you could ensure that all of the logo keys came in that color. The most likely candidate from my mock-ups would seem to be the darker blue positions. That would be the one requiring the fewest keys to come from IMSTO, I think.