What color?

[bdesmond]

Anybody got suggestions for what colors/gel #s is for the really deep yellow often seen on cans at rock concerts. I can't get a handle on it flipping through swatch books.

brian

[DJErik07]

For Rosco:
Storaro Yellow #2003

For Gam:
Brass #382
Golden Sunset #395

For Lee:
Deep Straw #015

Hope this helps a little. There are ther colors that are more orange/ yellow, but the ones listed above are mostly dark yellow.

[bdesmond]

Thanks. I guess this will be a GAM purchase since I can't find the rosco ro lee equivelants in a swatch. My Lee swatchbook is not in any sort of numerical order - I never use it, never noticed.

[zac850]

Not to hijack this thread, but:

For the show I'm doing, the script says that the stage becomes gold. I decided to just buy a sheet of gold gel and chuck it in a follow spot. I looked through all my swatch books looking for a good gold.

Any ideas for what a good "gold" color would be. All of the colors I found were either to yellow or to orange, and not very goldish...

[Radman]

2003 is right after 13
312 looks more rock yellow than 2003
312 or 2003 might make nice gold. Remember, gold is kinda yellow, too.

[Peter]

I think gold is hard (we have the problem all the time b/c our school colors are blue and gold) because so much of what makes gold gold is the shine and sparkle. If you get right down to it, gold is really a dull yellow, but it shines which is how everyone thinks of it.

We usualy end up using a yellow instead of gold, it usualy looks more like people think it should then if we tryed to get a really accurate gold.

(the same idea is in effect with sliver, it's really just gray, but shiny... (take a close look at a gold or sliver crayon, just lots of shiney specks in it to really make it different))

[bdesmond]

Originally Posted by Radman

2003 is right after 13

Mine goes from 13 to 14.

[propmonkey]

lee has to different versions of their swatchbooks, i believe, a numbric and chromatic editons. just the order they are in is different

[Radman]

Originally Posted by bdesmond

Mine goes from 13 to 14.

I was refering to rosco, is that maybe the confusion? Otherwise you may want to send away for an updated version.

[bdesmond]

Originally Posted by Radman

Otherwise you may want to send away for an updated version.

Apparently