It was just fun to see what someone who is deeply invested thought important to test, explain and research about something I'd have previously called a matter of aesthetic preference (as opposed to a thing you can benchmark).
There's more high quality engineering discipline in this 'non-engineering' article than in seemingly a lot of self-professed software engineering today ;)
Pigment color is a real heavy-duty field. There's a guy named Michael Wilcox[1] that is famous for his work on pigment color.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40917886
[1] https://michaelwilcoxschoolofcolour.com/about-michael-wilcox... (Has an annoying popup on every page).
> Pigment color is a real heavy-duty field
I'm not surprised. As $DAYJOB involves a reasonable amount of requirements for colour accurate previewing in a print context I still feel like I'm never as sure about all steps of the colour pipeline as I should be, and this adds a whole new area to know I'll never feel like I know enough about.
Here's a video interview with him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd3hCBPqzYU