You may find RAL colour matches are an extra subscription, so you may have to get the closest match by varying the separate colour chanels.

There is an issue using Pantone colours with Adobe

Adobe Just Held a Bunch of Pantone Colors Hostage | WIRED UK

Martin King 2:

I am sending you a PM

Done properly colour calibration isn't for the faint hearted! It requires hardware and software.

However, Windows 10 added improved calibration capability that may be worth exploring, and there are a number of software apps that have a go. My impression is the latter are aimed at bringing monitors closer to their specified colour profile, not that they guarantee spot on accuracy.

Colour calibration is available for printers too. When I retired quite complicated and expensive, but the state of the art may have improved since then. I've never needed to colour calibrate anything at home, sending stuff off to be printed professionally on the rare occasions correct colours were important. (I was mildly serious about photography for a while.)

Dave

Absolutely no problem if you want to make your own decals and apply them to your own tools. No need to make any statement about it being a reproduction etc. And then if you want to sell that tool with the decal on it as a secondhand tool, also no problem.

But if you want to sell the decals themselves as a commercial venture, it becomes a different matter. If the original maker is still around and still cares about their logos etc, they may either object to your selling imitations, or demand you pay them a licensing fee or royalties etc. Or they may not care at all. And for commercial sales, stating or labelling the decals as reproductions makes no difference to anything.

Some less scrupulous people get around this by listing the decals for sale as "New Old Stock" of unknown provenance. That is, claimed to be secondhand but unused and probably original but who knows. LIke I said, less than scrupulous.

We used to use the Pantone swatches to determine the colour we wanted, then look up on a chart the CMYK equivalent of that Pantone colour, as our presses operated on a CMYK system.

In later years it was all done on screen and you took pot luck with exactly how the colour turned. out. But printing on newsprint is a bit like throwing handfuls of coloured mud at a sheet of sponge rubber anyway so not that critical anyway.

Nice work. They look good.