File compliance

Every Color Direct .ai file from the last two months, graded against the canonical ink values in the CMS. Open a file to see each named ink it uses, how the file defines that ink, and how far that sits from the standard. This is the artist worklist: a file marked drifts has at least one ink more than ΔE 5 from its canonical value.

files graded
more carry no swatch book
drift ≥ ΔE 5
visibly off standard
minor ΔE 2–5
borderline
conform < ΔE 2
match the CMS
ungradeable
no ink in the file has a CMS value
The standard = cms_art_color_meta, canonical colors, read from the CMS on . An ink with no CMS row is shown as no standard and is not graded — that gap is real and worth closing in the CMS.  ·  ΔE match <2 close 2–5 off ≥5
of the ungradeable files are blocked by two inks

INK006 Spot Black C and INK013 White C are defined as CMYK in the MV palette, not Lab, so they were deliberately left out of the CMS rather than guessed at. They are also the two most-used inks in the corpus. Giving them canonical Lab values is a single decision that would make roughly % of all graded files gradeable.

Other unvalued ink codes seen in this window:  ·  further files use only Pantone or freehand swatches, which have no MV ink code to key on at all.

Inks most often off standard

Ranked by the worst single deviation seen in any file. Fixing the swatch in the source art for these inks clears the most files at once.