How a reading is made
Three moves from sample to sealed.
Nothing enters the vault by accident. A pigment is sampled, measured against the master strip, then bound to exactly one role — and the field stays dark so the mark can speak.
Sample
Pull a hue from a frame, a swatch book, or a live grade. It hangs in a vial until it earns a value.
Measure
Read it against the master strip under D65. The vault records its coordinate and ΔE — no guesswork.
Bind
Assign one role: specimen, focus, live, pending, or alert. That binding holds across every proof.
Five bound readings
Each colour, suspended and named.
The bound set, shown as the vault shows it — a vial, its role, and the value it answers to. Saturated colour never appears without a job.
Read across the strip
The whole set, in one calibrated read.
Stack the bound readings and you get the master strip: a continuous, measured band where every step earns its place. No confetti, no rainbow — just the five values the work depends on.
Open the vault
Stop decorating. Start measuring.
Tincture keeps your palette honest — every saturated colour bound to a role, sealed against a value, and quiet until it has something to say.