Dec. 15, 2019 - 255 shades of gray

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Jan

This is how you use Cunningham's Law to get the exact specifications you need ;)

This is the last regular 9t9 update of 2019. By the time this comic uploads, I am already on the road. I will post AMAs where possible; the comic will resume on 12-Jan. Until then, happy holidays and safe travels!

Kangaar Foxfire • 12/15/2019

Poor Jessie, I HATE clients who insist on doing everything over the phone. :( Along with clients who expect you to pick their brains.

Shockwave07 • 12/15/2019

I wonder if there is a troll color name out there that is an official name...

Rocketroo • 12/15/2019

Safe travels! Now. is this gray going on a monochrome display, RGB display, is it for indoors, out doors? Will it be painted on fur? Will any of it matter in the end anyways? (considering I have two exact same monitors, at exact same settings, and if you move a window from one to the other the color changes by about 4 shades.)

Tir Amahn • 12/15/2019

I work in a print shop, we do PMS matching, so for us it's "Warm Gray or Cool Gray?".

Adam • 12/15/2019

Oh good lord, well. Either it will be spot on or completely off. Lets hope he doesn't want it to be a shaded grey XD

Good luck on the road, and AMA for jessie, Has she ever done a fur dye job she loved?

Robin Bobcat • 12/15/2019

Tir: FRENCH Gray.

(That's the weird greenish tint one)

Phil • 12/15/2019

In an anthro comic, Cunningham would be...

michael • 12/15/2019

Das ist ja grauenhaft, wenn man solche Kunden hat.

ndrvr • 12/15/2019

Forget that boring "50 shades of grey" book. Jessie's doing 127 shades ^^ rawr...

Panther • 12/16/2019

Shade of grey : shadow grey ^_^"

I WANT more of Cheryl as recurrent character or i kill the bunny king XD

Steve • 12/16/2019

Check out the web site: Clients from Hell https://clientsfromhell.net/

If you thought Jessie's client was bad, read some of these.

Sword Fighting Essentials • 12/17/2019

Jessie’s last dialogue is me in a nutshell

Hurley • 12/18/2019

As an honest-to-ghawd graphic designer for print (yes, we still exist!) I think I'm a little offended that Jessie would make anything on a letterhead design RGB. "Gray gray"? 50% screen of black it is, then. And I much prefer having these kinds of conversations by voice rather than email. Ten minutes of talking on the phone vs. hours if not days of clarifying back-and-forth via email? Yes, please!

Jan • 12/19/2019

@Hurley I feel your pain, but in different ways X) We have to recall Jessie never signed up to be a graphic designer, and in my experience the whole RGB-CMYK "hey, the printed colors don't match my screen!" conversation can't be avoided in any case...

37212513 • 12/19/2019

I'd reference crayola since they do have a plain gray. If the client didn't like it, ("Why do you think I asked for specifics..."). Call recording can also go a long way in helping out here, can't argue with proof you said it. :P

Tir Amahn • 12/21/2019

@Hurley & Jan

Yeah, that's what we deal with too. I'm in the prepress department, we're the ones who have to do the color matching, and we've got a delta-e scanner. There's colors, even PMS ones, that you simply can't match in 4 color process printing. Just a couple weeks ago we were asked to match PMS 802, which is neon green, yeah, that ain't happening.

JDancer2017 • 12/25/2019

You could've also LOOKED UP different types of gray in rgba

Verp • 12/27/2019

I had a 75 Plymouth Valiant. Chrysler called the color Goldenrod. The official name at the paint plant was Babyshit Yellow.

tracer • 01/05/2020

the whole RGB-CMYK "hey, the printed colors don't match my screen!" conversation can't be avoided in any case

I've heard of a place that had a monitor with real ugly colours. It had a sticky note: "Do not adjust the monitor colours!!! It matches our fucked-up plotter perfectly."

eric bloedow • 12/30/2020

reminds me of a story, it was on either on "clients from hell" or "not always right", where a client wanted something to be "Blue like a pine tree."

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