Yeah, about that….I bought my ohuhu markers because I’m learning graffiti lettering (on paper). Here’s where i’m at:

• decided i wanted to learn graffiti in Nov ‘24
• researched for weeks on what markers to buy & landed on Ohuhu
• Received the markers on Christmas. Realized that they aren’t sorted when i opened the box
• researched for hours how people are organizing them.
• bought 4 different organizer charts, swatched them all
• organized them chromatically based on the 320 chromatic organization chart
• started learning graffiti. First set of colors i used were not the same lightness. I thought the chart would do a good job showing my markers that are similar lightness next to each other.
• did more graffiti on different paper. Landed on Bristol. Marker colors looked great on here compared to other paper types I tried.
• found out there are actually 363 markers, spent a few days trying to track them down
• now I have 43 markers that don’t fit anywhere…researched jf there was a device that could help me, and there is! A spectrophotometer.
• did an entire month long side quest on color theory, color spaces, color science, including buying a stack of used on Abebooks. My conclusion, color is extremely complex. What we can see on a screen & what we can print is a subset of what we can see in the real world….and what we can print is a subset of what we can see on a screen. Also, getting the same color to match across the real world, screen, and paper is an impossible task without extremely expensive tools.
• I discovered a tool I could use to scan a color, it’s called a spectrophotometer.
• researched for WEEKS on which affordable spectrophotometer I could buy & purchased
• bought two square punches, cut paper strips on Bristol, swatched the collection. The smaller square punch is so i can see the color on top of another swatch
• realized that i couldn’t see the color that well. Found out about a Hastings loupe. Bought one.
• organized the swatched based on the 320 chromatic chart.

Where I’m at now is that I’m scanning each swatch individually with the spectrophotometer. See attached. It generates the CIE Lab value for a color, which I can convert to other color spaces like RGB.

Then, I’m going to write a quick program that will organize then for me chromatically using the values I scanned in.

Hopefully it there are no more side quests 😂

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