CHAPTER 9: NAMCO’S COMMERCIAL
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DYE COLORS
On the following pages is a complete listing of our dye colors. Each color is listed in a way that is
easy to read. Under the name of each color is a code. The code represents the approximate
ratio of primary colors to each other. Yellow is listed first, then Red, and finally Blue. The
number by each primary color indicates the number of measures per unit of volume that it
occupies.
Following each name and code is a brief description of the color. The second paragraph covers a
brief description of the general uses and applications of the color. The third paragraph covers
the most common uses of the color within our system. Any cautions necessary are listed last,
followed by their solutions.
1. OUR COLOR:
YELLOW
RATIO:
20 - PARTS YELLOW,
0 - PARTS RED,
0 - PARTS BLUE
(SEE ALSO GOLD)
Yellow is one of the three primary colors. The other two colors, Red and Blue, make Violet.
Therefore, Yellow is the complimentary color to Violet in order to get a Brown, Grey, or Black.
Yellow is rarely used by itself in Spray-Dyeing, but is used often in the Color Cleaning version of
Color Restoration.
In Spray-Dyeing, Yellow is most often used to lighten dye solutions that are of the Brown family.
Yellow is the least dominant of the three primary colors in terms of darkness, so it may take more
Yellow to lighten a dye solution than it would seem at first (sometimes, lightening a color can be
better achieved by diluting it with water, or by a combination of diluting it with water, then
adding Yellow).
CAUTION:
Since Yellow is a “delicate” color; it may take a lot of it to achieve the desired
brightening of your dye solution.
SOLUTION TO CAUTION:
As above, try diluting the color, or dilute then add Yellow.
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