You are right on target about your reasons for not printing the color on the cards!!

Really like your idea of a reference page for the palettes.

MJ

In regards to your suggestion about adding color to the sample spot on the recipe cards… that was actually in the original plan. However, we ended up not going that route because it would have caused much confusion.

You see color as we see it with our own eyes, is often very different than the representation of that color on computer monitors. You would be amazed how different the very same color is displayed from one system to the next. Now add to this… the variances caused by how your printer "interprets" the color when the recipe cards are transferred to paper or card stock.

What would happen is that many members and subscribers would end up "trusting" the color that got printed onto their hard copy recipe card. And this color would have almost always been many shades off the mark…. or worse, a completely different color all together because of poorly mixed cyan/yellow/magenta levels from an old or cheap ink jet printer cartridge.

I would end up having to deal with a ton of "what the heck???" types of emails and needing individual attention. Hopefully you can see the dilemma here.

So… the only "safe" or "accurate" way to make these color cards work for you, is if you actually mix up the recipe and put the real live color chip right on the card yourself.

All this being said, one thing that I am planning to do, is to set up an easy reference page with all of the color palette photos in one place. This will at least give you a convenient starting point for your color or palette selection process.

Now if only I had more hours in the day… :)

And while I am writing, I have a suggestion for the color cards. I was thinking that it would be great if you filled the color chip here spot with a sample of the color itself. This would be easy to do in Photoshop, Photoshop Elements or similar program. This would make a quick visual reminder when leafing through recipes that have not been mixed up by your subscribers. Then, when we have mixed up the color in clay, we can glue the clay chip over the color chip spot as usual.

Thanks for providing us with suggestions of these wonderful colors that can be used together!