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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2001
Filed:
May. 06, 1998
Michael C. Spangler, Doylestown, PA (US);
Creanova Inc., Somerset, NJ (US);
Abstract
A color identification and selection display for use in connection with the retail sale of custom-tinted architectural coatings and paints is based on lightness values or levels and is assembled from a plurality of take-home cards in the form of elongated strips that are placed with their longer axis in horizontal rows, each strip containing a plurality of color fields arranged in stripes separated by narrow neutral bands. Adjacent color stripes in a given row are of closely related hues that preferably decrease in wave length when moving from left to right along any given horizontal row. Since each strip contains a plurality of closely related colors, only one, or perhaps two, take-home cards need be removed to assist in the final selection of the desired color. Each horizontal row includes a family of colors formulated from a single type of base, i.e., a tint base, a pastel base, a deep base or an accent base. The horizontal rows are preferably arranged in a descending level of lightness, with the lightest pastel colors in horizontal rows at the top and the darkest colors prepared from the accent base in the lowest horizontal row. Methods for producing the color strips and other types of color identification and selection aids are provided.