Patent ID: 7963869

Claim:
A method of selecting and applying colors to a sports item, the method comprising: defining a chromatic blend line based on a CIE standard chromaticity diagram; selecting a first color location and a second color location on the chromatic blend line, wherein the first color location and the second color location are separated by at least 50% of a chromatic blend limit; retrieving a background spectrum from a database; modifying the first color location and the second color location based on the background spectrum; querying a pigment library; selecting a first pigment of a first color and a second pigment of a second color from the pigment library based on the modified first color location and the modified second color location, wherein the first pigment of the first color and the second pigment of the second color are substantially non-reflective in a spectral window associated with the background spectrum; and applying the first pigment of the first color and the second pigment of the second color to the sports item.