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Category
Colour management
Languages
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| Colour management | Standard illuminant | Standard light source | A defined spectral light distribution used for controlled colour assessment. | Normlichtart | Illuminant normalisé | Iluminante estándar | Illuminante standard | 标准光源 | Nguồn sáng chuẩn | ||||||||||||
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Translations
Not to be confused with
The physical viewing booth simulates an illuminant; it is not the illuminant definition itself.
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| Colour management | Tone-on-tone | Tonal match | A colour selection intended to blend closely with the sewn material. | Ton-in-Ton | Ton sur ton | Tono sobre tono | Tono su tono | 同色调 | Tông xuyệt tông | ||||||||||||
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Translations
Not to be confused with
Not necessarily an exact instrumental match.
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| Colour management | Wavelength | Light wavelength | The spatial period of light radiation, associated with different parts of the visible spectrum. | Wellenlänge | Longueur d’onde | Longitud de onda | Lunghezza d’onda | 波长 | Bước sóng | ||||||||||||
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Translations
Not to be confused with
Colour perception is not determined by a single wavelength for most objects.
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