Printing
One solution is to get color calibration equipment, but before you rush out and get an expensive kit, there are a few tricks you can try instead to get close enough to the correct colors for most eyeballs out there.
Most smartphones have color-calibrated screens, so one way to check whether the colors you’re seeing are accurate is to email the PNG file to yourself and open it on your phone. If the colors match, you’ll be good to go 99% of the time. Another option is to print this color test chart I’ve made (see Figure 15.16), which is included in the materials for this chapter.
Figure 15.16 – Color test sheet to send to the printer
The trick is, you send this PDF (made in Inkscape) to the printer and have it print you one copy of it. When you receive the print in the mail, you can then compare it to the same file opened in Inkscape to see whether there’s any color shift. You can then manually adjust your monitor...
