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Do small color differences in FMCG packaging hurt trust and sales?
What’s the ‘Smallest Actionable Difference’?

19/09/2026 Eddy Hagen 0

Dear brand owners, print buyers, you are told that small color differences will hurt trust in your brand, eventually resulting in loss of sales. Which […]

Beyond the P1/P2 light booth:
What color actually looks like on the shelf

21/06/2026 Eddy Hagen 0

If you are a brand owner, print buyer, or designer who cares about the quality of print products, you probably know very well what the […]

How good is your reference?

14/05/2026 Eddy Hagen 0

Dear brand owner, print buyer, designer. You are the guardian of your brand, your work, and you take your job seriously. You probably only accept […]

Using decimals in your Lab based brand color definition? Nothing but noise…

25/10/2025 Eddy Hagen 0

If you read the Project BBCG tutorial, you will have noticed that we specifically have chosen to use Lab values with no decimals. That was […]

Confused about the “Please use 300 ppi images” statement?
Here’s what matters AND free tools to calculate the right minimal size!

30/04/2025 Eddy Hagen 0

If you are designing documents for print or delivering images for print, you may have had feedback: “Please use 300 ppi images!” And that might […]

Adobe brand color specifications:
NOT Project BBCG-approved

23/02/2025 Eddy Hagen 0

Let’s look at a very special brand, one that has become a multi-dollar company and one of the top 100 companies in the world, thanks […]

Is a large color difference a nightmare for a brand?

12/01/2025 Eddy Hagen 0

It is being said that color differences between packages of the same product will impact sales. However, there is no proof for that. I’ve been […]

Is print quality control Russian roulette?

29/12/2024 Eddy Hagen 0

If you want your brand colors reproduced within a certain tolerance, you rely on measurements to check this. But a small test with real life […]

Will a 10 dE00 hurt sales? The Oreo case

19/10/2024 Eddy Hagen 0

In a previous blog post we discussed a more theoretical study about the influence of small color deviations. But here’s something new, and real-life: Oreo […]

Cisco brand color specifications:
NOT Project BBCG-approved

28/09/2024 Eddy Hagen 0

The third brand guide on this list is the one from Cisco. And it’s an interesting one, but, again, not Project BBCG approved… The full […]

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Recent posts

  • Do small color differences in FMCG packaging hurt trust and sales?
    What’s the ‘Smallest Actionable Difference’?
  • Beyond the P1/P2 light booth:
    What color actually looks like on the shelf
  • How good is your reference?
  • Using decimals in your Lab based brand color definition? Nothing but noise…
  • Confused about the “Please use 300 ppi images” statement?
    Here’s what matters AND free tools to calculate the right minimal size!
  • Adobe brand color specifications:
    NOT Project BBCG-approved
  • Is a large color difference a nightmare for a brand?
  • Is print quality control Russian roulette?
  • Will a 10 dE00 hurt sales? The Oreo case
  • Cisco brand color specifications:
    NOT Project BBCG-approved

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Do you like Project BBCG? And would you like to help people in your region with this information? We are looking for people who are willing to translate the tutorial into their native language. Since everything about Project BBCG is free, it is a voluntary job, no payment offered. But, you will be mentioned as the translator in the document! Eternal fame and gratitude awaits you… 😉 Interested? First check if your native language is not avaiable yet (see top menu) and if it isn’t, send an e-mail to: eddy.hagen@insights4print.ceo

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  • If you swapped Coca-Cola red with Target red, what would happen? 26/09/2026
    It might sound like blasphemy: swapping brand colors. And some people might accuse me of heresy by just thinking about that possibility. But hear me out: there is an experiment that supports this these, that [...] The post If you swapped Coca-Cola red with Target red, what would happen? appeared first on insights4print.ceo.
  • Did a two-year-long, real-life experiment reveal the magnitude of the Smallest Actionable Difference? 12/09/2026
    We need a new metric: the ‘Smallest Actionable Difference’ (SAD), to know which difference in brand color reproduction will turn off consumers and therefore hurt trust and sales. But lab experiments can’t determine this, since [...] The post Did a two-year-long, real-life experiment reveal the magnitude of the Smallest Actionable Difference? appeared first on insights4print.ceo.
  • Our mind not only plays tricks on us, it even invents reality… 20/06/2026
    You probably thought what a silly question that is in the header image. “That’s Coca-Cola, obviously!” But check again, read the letters on that can out loud, very carefully, one by one… Did you notice? [...] The post Our mind not only plays tricks on us, it even invents reality… appeared first on insights4print.ceo.

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