Colour Issues     

The issue of colour is very important, especially to something like yarn.  When the balls of yarn you purchase here are intended for special garment, you want to be sure that the colour you see is the colour of yarn delivered.  We have taken particular care to ensure our photography accurately reproduces the yarn colour, so you can have confidence that what you see is what you will get.  At Ozeyarn, we think the yarn images are accurate enough for you to decide on a purchase.

However for many reasons, there are some differences that can effect what you see.

• Monitors are different - the monitor you are reading this on is unlikely to be the exact same brand and model that we used when creating the website.  Also, your brightness and contract settings will be different.  And how old is your screen? - your PC's screen will become less clear over a period of several years.

• Video card - different display cards have different drivers, even between different Operating Systems (eg, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP, Macintosh OS X) so there will be variations there.

• Screen Resolution - is your system set for 800x600 resolution? 1024x768?  Perhaps even higher or lower?  Even if we had the exact same system and OS, if you were using 800x600 and we used 1024x768 during our design phase, there would be colour differences between those screen sizes.

• Colour depth setting - what is your video driver set to? 256 colours?  16-bit?  24-bit?  Our photos are predominately 24-bit jpeg files.  They could look different on other colour settings.

• Ambient light - what sort of lighting do you have in the room right now?  Florescent? Incandescent? Halogens?  Or just sunlight coming in from outside? So what time of day is it?  Is the light direct or reflected off some other surface?  What is the colour of that surface?  The texture?  And on and on - all these factors can change your perception of what you see on this screen in front of you.

It is possible to have exact colour match on different monitors, but usually that is a True Colour system at the high-end professional level, for areas like magazine publishing and advertising.  For the rest of us - near enough is still very good.

If you still need to be specifically sure of the yarn colour, please ask for our free Sample Card.  This is the reason we made them - so customers could see and feel the real thing before making a purchase.  But in most cases we think the web images are good enough for you to decide on a purchase.