

Curated for paper documents, particularly offset printing using Pantone licensed inks. Defined as a formula of the 8-12 pigments found in hardware store color mixing machines. This is curated for the more muted colors found in architectural coatings. Hardware store paint chips: burnt maize, uh, right.The named color system defines only certain colors, and those selections are curated toward a given purpose: Defined as measured values of reflectivity for hue, saturation and lightness. Munsell (in any surface, not light) and CIELAB: 6.25YR/4.5/3.6.CMYK (in ink) as in your example, defined as mixing of four theoretical inks.The measurement system allows you to peg numbers and codes to any color that is within gamut of the system.

Long answer: You're dealing with two very different taxonomies of color. This may result in small change to the color. Short answer: Map over into that new system - one appropriate for the production process - and get the customer to sign off on it.
