Michel Color Guide – in five languages (English, German, French, Italian and Spanish)
Color variations often determine the value of a stamp. However, people’s color perception is very subjective. The MICHEL color guide enables the objective color determination by comparing the brand colors with 600 pattern tiles. The practical perforation of each tile makes it easier to determine that the brand color to be determined and that of the pattern tile come into direct contact with each other.
Description:
- Supplied with hole template to help determine stamp’s color
- 600 color tiles in graduated nuances
- Determination of a total of 1056 colors
- 114 basic shades in 5 shades each
- Further tonal gradations of the colors white, gray and black
- 31 color plates with the paper colors of the roll ends of German roller brands
- Instructions for use in English, French, Italian and Spanish
NOTE FROM MICHEL: Why isn’t the MICHEL Color Guide available at a lower price?
The special varnish printing process used to create the color plates of the MICHEL color guide is extremely time-consuming, both in terms of preparation (mixing of colors), in the printing itself (colors have to be applied one after the other to ensure absolute homogeneity) and in terms of finishing. There are individual products on the market that are created using common printing processes such as offset printing. However, it is of course clear to every passionate stamp collector that this printing process is in no way suitable for color matching with stamps. Even if the colors are exactly right, it is no longer possible to compare them at the latest when a thread counter is created, because the rasterization of the basic colors printed on top of each other is always visible and the colors change optically.
Product information:
Edition: 38th edition, in color
Pages: 61
Format: 155 mm x 210 mm, ring binding
Release date: 27 October 2011
