was: Re: DEC colours now: dead horse beaten into thin film

[Jules Richardson]

On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 18:21 -0800, Tom Jennings wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 18:04, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> 
> > Who knows?  Who cares!  Color matching by eye is "good enough".
> 
> The classic trick is to simply match a panel you have. For a good sample
> of the "correct" (sic) color (colour) is to remove an escutcheon, or
> flip a panel over, etc, to find paint that hasn't been exposed to
> sunlight and/or coffee and match that.
> 
> Or squirt the whole thing wrinkle black. Everything looks good in
> wrinkle black. No exceptions.

What you need is a can of tartan paint... ;)