Petty Blue RBG?

[Julio Chang]

Does anyone have an accurate RBG value for petty blue? I'm trying to get as close as possible to the real color.

 

[JasonRSC]

Try one of these:

56:133:200
34:124:226

 

[Sage]

Or mine...
R:42
G:208
B:250

One of these must be close.

 

[Julio Chang]

Thanks guys. I'll play around with them and see what I can come up with.

 

[Petty4345]

R: 3
G:130
B:219

This is my petty blue I've used for a long time. I've tried different shades over the years but this one looks the best.

 

[Finishline]

I'm sure you know this, but you could also save a picture of his car and color pick the blue, it may not be exact since the light makes it lighter.

 

[RP Motorsports]

Just a couple quick pieces of advice...

If you want an accurate color, you should never take the eyedropper to a photo. The lighting, exposure, shadows, and everything else on a photo will be significantly different from picture to picture and will almost never be accurate to a particular color you want. There are so many variables in a photo, and from photo to photo, that trying to grab a color even close to accurate is pretty unlikely.

-Ryan

 

[SimDesigners]

If you can convert PMS colors with relative accuracy, find PMS 2995. I believe that's the official Pantone color for Petty Blue.

 

[Krusty]

Found this during a search.........................Color / 15B0F0 / Petty Blue :: COLOURlovers

RGB: 21/176/240

 

[RP Motorsports]

If you can convert PMS colors with relative accuracy, find PMS 2995. I believe that's the official Pantone color for Petty Blue.

Dan, do you have/know of a good method of converting? I have spreadsheets and databases full of Pantone color codes (sports teams, company logos, manufacturers colors etc...) for paint/airbrush work that I do but I've never had a sure fire method of coverting them to RGB values.

-Ryan

 

[SimDesigners]

Best thing is if you have a Pantone book- Pantone includes CMYK, HSV, Hex and RGB in the newer ones. Other than that, you're almost at the mercy of the internet. I did find the following link- not sure offhand how close it is though:

RGB #00A9E0 • Pantone 2995 • RGB Chart & Multi Tool • Color • PerBang.dk

 

[Sage]

Ryan,

Maybe one of these will be what you need...
Convert Pantone Colours to RGB
goffgrafix.com - custom web site design and programming - designing affordable, functional web sites

Found these (and a bunch more) using a simple Google Search for: Pantone to RGB

And, of course, there's always 'The Source'...Pantone.

 

[RP Motorsports]

Yea I guess I shouldve known better.

I had a Pantone book from about 10 years ago and it didnt have anything in it as far as RGB values. Its not something I have to worry about very often though because I obviously use color codes when I'm shooting paint and rarely have a reason to try and convert them to RGB. I kinda just always would resort to a few techniques I picked up when it came to converting since those occasions were few and far in between. I shouldve known that now-a-days there would be something somewhere on the internet.

Thanks guys.

-Ryan

 

[Sage]

I just finished up a job where I had to match some Pantone colors with 1-Shot. Fortunately, I've been playing with 1-Shot long enough (40+ years) that they were no-brainers as to what colors to mix with what. Color codes are OK as a starting point, but it seems to me that they almost always need some tweaking (especially true with automotive paints). And, at least to me anyway, they're only good if you're color matching something that's in front of you. Otherwise you're color matching to an unknown.

But back to the topic at hand...since pretty much every computer monitor is set differently (unless you calibrate it for Gamma & White Point), does it really matter how accurate the Petty Blue is (other than self satisfaction) since someone else may see it entirely different? In this case 'close' may well be 'good enough'.

 

[RP Motorsports]

Yea I havnt used 1-shot much but for a couple times but I have a couple friends that really like it. Most of the painting I do is on goalie masks so luckily i dont deal with situations very often where you have to match body panels or something like that. That can be real tough, especially when you factor in sun fade and that kind of thing. I can usually just use the color code for a specific team's colors since I'm not matching anything else existing, and it comes out spot on.

The monitor is a very good point as well. Colors are always going to look at least slightly different from monitor to monitor so alot of the time you need to try and eyeball a color adjustment for it to look right. Then even if it looks good on your screen, it may look off on somebody else's.

-Ryan