02/16/2011
DayGlo Calls for Reinvention of Color
Addresses color preferences and trends at the Package Design & Development Summit… Read More
The color spectrum is much larger than we can perceive! The range moves from invisible, low-energy infrared rays to high-energy ultraviolet rays. The ‘visible light spectrum’, or the colors that we see, are actually in the middle of the range.
Normal color absorbs and re-emits a portion of the visible spectrum that matches its principal wavelength, while the remaining colors are absorbed and dissipated as heat. In this way, a regular orange color re-emits back to your eye just the narrow orange band of the visible light spectrum. Therefore, if there is little or no orange light around (such as early dawn or dusk) the orange surface would appear dark or even black.
How do fluorescent colors behave differently?
Fluorescent colors use a larger amount of both the visible spectrum and the lower wavelengths compared to conventional colors. They not only absorb and convert light energy of the dominant wavelength, but also the wavelengths of ultraviolet rays and other colors lower in the visible spectrum. As a result, your eye perceives a far more intense color.
Where a clean, bright conventional color is able to reflect a maximum of 90% of a color present in the spectrum; a fluorescent color can reflect as much as 200% to 300%.
So how exactly does a fluorescent color fluoresce? It’s all about energy!
A fluorescent dye molecule begins at the lowest state of energy possible – the Ground State. When light shines on it, a photon of light is absorbed by the molecule. In effect, energy is absorbed. This excites the electrons inside the molecule to higher energy states – known as the
And, that’s how fluorescent colors look so much brighter than conventional ones!
Addresses color preferences and trends at the Package Design & Development Summit 2011
Cleveland, OH (February 14, 2011) – DayGlo Color Corp., a global leader in the color industry, will be examining packaging and consumer developments in the 21st century from the unique perspective of color at the Package Design & Development Summit 2011 (March 1-3; St Petersburg, FL).
If the 20th century was about following color trends, then the 21st is all about using color to express our individuality. In this era of personalization, consumers increasingly seek niche color palettes over traditional ranges in their lives and, therefore, in the products they buy.
In this lively session, Dr. Wayne Likavec, Product Development and Quality Control Manager at DayGlo, will challenge the audience to look beyond accepted tenets of color in packaging and propose a new direction, examining the industry from the perspectives of: colors themselves, color effects, and the applications of color in consumer and commercial packaging.
“New categories of influencers are broadening our color choices,” Likavec notes. “From private label to sustainability and the globalization of style, packaging developers, designers, and brands alike need to understand that color can play a different – and increasingly important – role in drawing consumers. Packaging, it seems, has become fashion.”
The Package Design & Development Summit brings together package design and development professionals seeking the latest trends, tools and technologies to create competitive packaging that drives growth. The Summit focuses on the key challenges facing designers and developers and provides real-world solutions. Attendees include:
• Package designers, package developers, creative directors, packaging managers, packaging engineers, operations managers, marketing managers and R&D managers from CPG and converter companies.
• Consumer packaging consultants, package design and development firms, packaging industry service and solution providers, packaging consultants and market researchers
DayGlo recently announced its new positioning, “Color. Only Better.”, aimed to communicate the company’s expertise in improving, enhancing, and making color better. In addition, the company launched a new website featuring the Design Center, a new interactive tool for the industry, where visitors can see firsthand how to make color better using DayGlo products on a 3D object.
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About DayGlo
Cleveland-based DayGlo Color Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of RPM, Inc., is a global leader in the color industry, offering a diverse product line and customized color solutions for packaging and consumer goods, plastics, graphic arts, paints and coatings, dyes and textiles, as well as ingredients for the personal care and cosmetics industries. As the originator, and world’s largest manufacturer, of daylight fluorescent color, DayGlo also develops conventional color dispersions and specialty effect pigments. DayGlo’s diverse range of products can be used alone or combined with conventional colors help achieve cleaner, brighter, more sophisticated colors. With DayGlo it’s “Color. Only Better.”
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