I'd still like to see an original TA set and this set side by side, plus the paint chip, all in one photo.
I still see this set as being far more blue than the original. I also have no calibrated monitors, thus I'd like to see it all in one photo under the same light
I can post that next month, right now I am not in the same state as my genuine board. Anyway let me try to speak to this, all this information has been posted before as events unfolded but maybe this will help clarify for people who have not read the thousands of posts in the IC and GB threads -
You are not wrong, the 315 C teal is
not the same color of my original caps, because the original (at least,
my particular original) doesn't actually look anything like the
canonical pics that everyone knows as TA.
Here is the most accurate unretouched pic I have of my original set:
Not too sexy, is it? I was certainly surprised when I first opened the box and was expecting to see something much different. As you can see, the mods don't give a teal impression at all, rather it's piss green (and the camera actually smooths them out a lot, they are much blotchier in person, blue with yellow clouding rather than consistent green). Anyway,
that was precisely the reason I gave up on color matching - the real deal turned out not to be what was
expected. So plan B was to pick the Pantone that I felt gave the best impression of those canonical pics.
And as I've said, I am very happy with the way the mods came out. I went through a ton of color chips and I do not believe there is a better choice in the Pantone color library. I agree they can come off too bright or blue in direct sunlight, and obviously they are not going to have the exact same characteristics as plastic that's truly had 30 years of UV exposure, but in normal indoor lighting they are pretty darn spot on, and none of the other colors came remotely close. The only change I'd make with regard to color is to darken the alphas a little bit, because they give a lighter impression than I intended when working with the color chips. But overall it's pretty minor, and I feel that I made the best decision given the info I had at the time.
This was not an easy GB, I had no idea what I was in for regarding colors, communicating color choices, and, more abstractly, trying to replicate something that existed for all intents and purposes only on people's screens and in their minds. Most GBs do not have this kind of difficulty/uncertainty involved. Despite the shipping snafus at the end, I am overall happy with the way it turned out. I do hope there will be a round 2 to perfect things, there are a couple tweaks I'd like to make, but the teal wouldn't be one of them.
More generally, let's hope that GMK can start offering preproduction samples, so we can... you know...ACTUALLY iterate like with real products and not simply have one shot and no actual sample to show buyers.
I hope this helps clarify where I'm coming from and why I made choices I did. By no means am I claiming to be perfect, far from it, but I think I did my best and got a pretty solid outcome, save the recent problems that were out of my hands. A round 2 could really be 100% perfect so let's hope it can happen.
