Colour
Every colour in your design is measured the way colour science measures it, matched to a real thread, yarn, ink or stone, and sent to the factory with the tolerance it must land within.
All five within ΔE2000 2.0, the default tolerance.
What Colour does
Colour works inside every engine. You describe the design; every colour in it leaves as a real, orderable shade with a number the factory can check.
Every colour measured
Every pixel is read in CIE L*a*b*, and every difference judged in ΔE2000 — the scale colour labs and dye houses work in.
Matched to real stock
Each colour goes to the closest real thread, yarn, ink, stone, bead or sequin — closest first, your own brand first.
Checked under three lights
Daylight, tungsten and store light, wherever a colour’s full spectrum is known, so a match holds under the shop’s lamps.
Thread shades, by their measured colour
Each dot is a real thread shade, placed where its colour measures. Pick a dot to see the shades nearest to it.
Point at a dot to see its thread — its line, its number and its L*a*b*.
Click it for how many real threads sit within ΔE2000 2, and the closest of them.
How close is close enough
You set how far a colour may drift. 2.0 is the default. Each pair below is one teal beside the same teal shifted by exactly that much.
ΔE 1.0
Imperceptible
ΔE 2.0Default
Slight
ΔE 3.0
Acceptable
ΔE 4.0
Visible
What the factory gets
Every order carries its colour with it — the targets, the tolerance and the cloth — so the first dye lot and the first strike-off land where the design meant.
Colour Spec · teal
Target40.79 · −23.38 · −8.88
LightD65 · 2°
ToleranceΔE2000 2.0
Clothbanana fibre, 180 gsm
Lands at39.59 · −19.47 · −6.55
Match byspectrophotometer
Colour Spec
For each colour: the target in L*a*b*, the tolerance, the cloth, and where it is expected to land on that cloth.
Strike-off · D50 / 2°
C0193.05 · 0.93 · 9.92
C0240.55 · −24.89 · −9.32
C0366.99 · 10.31 · 54.33
C0435.84 · 34.47 · 27.06
C0523.89 · 0.09 · −24.70
Strike-off colour card
The colours to check on the first printed sample, as measured values your spectrophotometer reads.
TIFF · ICCColour-managed master
The print master carries its colour profile inside, so the RIP reads the colour the design was made in.
Shades · thread
CreamΔE 0.77
TealΔE 0.86
OchreΔE 1.42
RustΔE 1.71
NavyΔE 0.43
Shade list
Every colour in the design with the real shade it is matched to, and how close — ready to order.
Colour in every engine
The same colour, carried into the material each engine works in.
Embroidery, schiffli and quilting
Each colour matched to a real thread shade, your own brand first when you name it.
A colour-managed master, a strike-off colour card, and any colour the ink cannot reach flagged.
Weave and knit
Each yarn colour given as a target to dye to, with its tolerance and how it lands on the yarn.
Embellish
Stones, beads, pearls and sequins matched by colour from real ranges.
Frequently asked questions
What is ΔE2000?
Why L*a*b* and not RGB or hex?
Will the colour on the cloth match my screen?
What if a colour can’t be printed?
Can I use my own thread brand?
Will a match hold under shop light?
From a design to colours the factory can hit
Free to start. Pro and Max plans available.