Exploring Color Schemes and Digital Color Values

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What happens here

After scanning a color, the Nix app offers several functionalities for color harmonization. By selecting 'Color Schemes', users can browse monochromatic, complementary, analogous, split complementary, and triadic color palettes derived from the scanned color. This helps in selecting accent colors or coordinating elements. The app also allows users to switch to 'Digital Color Values' (via the settings menu or using the Nix Digital app), which provides HEX, sRGB, CMYK, LCH(ab), CIELAB, LRV, and Hue information. This is particularly useful for graphic designers, artists, or anyone needing precise digital color data for various projects. Users can save these color details into organized folders (by project, room, and notes) and share them via text, email, or other platforms, eliminating the need to physically carry multiple paint swatches.

Goal: This step illustrates how the Nix app generates complementary and harmonious color schemes and provides digital color values (RGB, CMYK, HEX) for various applications.

Tools and materials

Nix Mini 2 Color Sensor
Smartphone with Nix Paints App

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get the color matched to and so i'm going to pull it up here and i'm going to pull up nick's the nyx paint app and so i'm going to record my screen so we can show some b-roll of this also going on so you can see what's going on on my phone so now my phone is recording itself so nick's pane i'm just going to select nick's pane and now it's going to want to connect to my device i've got multiple devices i'm going to step aways and keep this one close to this device and i'm just going to hit um connect and i'm going to hold it right here and it's going to start connecting to my device saying um this is a self-contained device got a battery in it and the little ones the nyx mini will the battery will last up to 3 000 scans the nyx pro 2 one of the differences it'll a longer battery life it'll last about 5 000 scans so it says it's connected and now it's connected to the app on my phone i've gone through a very simple connection process i'm going to just take one color right here we'll just start off with one color off um we'll do a benjamin moore swatch right here this brown swatch i'm just going to set the the nyx mini on there it's got a lens and a processor inside here a color i i'll set it on there and it's as simple as this all i got to do is hit scan it's going to start scanning right here and now it just came up with a bunch of color swatches it's got the scan surface and then um it puts them in sequence which is the closest to it and it came up with a color preview it came up it selected benjamin moore's color driftwood 2107 and i'll show you it actually the one that it selected it is um driftwood it actually picked the exact color it also gave me um some other options that it was close to if i if i'm not going to be using bare colors it said it was you know dead on with that color um it came up with bear marquee a color persian cafe it came up with bear color selection couple bear came up with sherwin-williams um spalding gray that it was very similar to and you just as you scroll down it gets farther and farther away from the color and it's pretty amazing it's every time i've scanned it off a fan deck it's 100 dead accurate now you can see the flatter the color the more accurate it's going to be when scanning an actual paint color like on a house and stuff but this is the beauty of the device if the colors the customer says you know i want my house um to be painted the exact same colors and you don't have the paints available all you got to do is put…

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