I just started a design business with a friend, we have designed a logo with very potent colours, we spent a long long time designing it and choosing the exact colours in illustrator...then we export it as a .pdf or place it in inDesign and various other programs and the colours look really different in some things, to get it perfect we have to re-draw it in every program even though it's always set to CMYK...this also leads to the differing colours when we print it, and the colours ARE print safe.
What's the best way to prevent colour changes through print and export without having to re-draw?
What are the best ways to prevent colour changes in export and print?
there is a lot to learn about it, and it is complicated. You have to have your monitor calibrated to make sure you see the logo the way it is. The different programs you import your logo to must have different color profiles, for example sRGB and Adobe RGB are so much different, because Adobe RGB has much more colors.
And in print, it depends on so much too: the paper, the inks. Printers usually assign pantone colors for the important colors.
