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sequences found naturally in nature, not colors created by mixing paints or dyes. Most importantly for commercial uses, each individual color comes with an internationally recognized, scientifically coded number that can be used to reproduce it accurately in paint, dye or ink.
The implications for this in the design and industrial world are far reaching. Designers who use this program will no longer be faced with the frustration of not being able to replicate the same colors in different media. For example, fabric designers can choose their colors on the computer and the code will identify what dyes to use to replicated the colors on fabric.
Craig Landrum, chief technical officer Blue Ridge Technologies, wrote the computer code for Luke, but she conceptualized the idea and did the tedious work of entering all the scientific numbering. The program was written for Macintosh computers, but will be adapted to Windows after it is introduced into the commercial market.
Luke’s partners in the Bronson Color Company, which she set up to develop and market the software, are Linda Taylor of Sperryville and Sylvia Weiss of Bethesda, Md.
In her sunny mountain studio with a view of the woods and Blue Ridge, Luke has the perfect place to work. The rooms are filled with special D65 lights, color charts, and drawing tables. Spread on her desk last week were sets of colored pencil color charts that she was testing for fading. She
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