Now that a few people have chimed in, I'll give my thoughts.
All of the colors are very close, even the dark blue (2965C). The blue alphas (2728C) and the legend/accent color (0821C) are a bit closer to the Pantone than the dark blue (2965c) however. Yes, the dark blue is a bit too dark. If keyboards were used in optimal lighting it would be less of a problem, but since we all use keyboards inside under sub-optimal lighting, we'd like to lighten it up some. Now here's the thing with color matching from GMK. We can't just tell them that we'd like a certain sample just a tad brighter. Instead, we'd have to pick a whole new Pantone or RAL to be color sampled. For that reason, that's why we are keeping the legend/accent (0821C) color unchanged from the first sample. Choosing a different Pantone or RAL would only make it less of a match than what we already have.
As for the dark blue (2965C), we would like to make it a bit lighter. We're going with RAL since GMK matches to RAL better. We chose 5011. It's a bit lighter and also a bit more blue -
yes, the set needs more blue. Could be too much in the lighter spectrum though. Anyway, here's a comparison:
We also didn't realize this until GMK reached back out to us, but another set is using RAL 5011. It appears that they have already color matched to this RAL, so because GMK has already made this sample, they are able to send us one in less time than what it normally takes them. Brownie points to the person that can guess correctly which set it is.
Stay tuned for round 2 of samples. I'll also be able to show them off against Nautilus and Calm Depths since I recently acquired those two sets.
