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If you have ever stood in front of a wall to find out which white tone it is, the nothing mini 3 -color sensor can protect you from gaming and bad decisions. This tiny device is made for painters, designers, contractors or homes that have to adapt a shade of color or reproduce the exact color of a brand. About the size of a golf ball and the weight of only 20 grams is small enough to throw in your pocket, but precisely enough to scan colors with serious accuracy. The Nix Mini 3 is currently offered for sale for $ 79.99 for stack social (down of 119 US dollars), which is not exactly cheap. However, if you need precise color information, it is a valuable investment.
The NIGE MINI 3 fits your phone with the free NIGE NIGE TOOLKIT app (available on iOS and Android) via Bluetooth and offers you immediate access to over 200,000 colors of brand names. You simply scan a surface, and the app offers you the nearest painting and the color codes that you need for design software or printing. If you work in digital design or pressure, you will appreciate that it also offers RGB, Hex and CMYK codes with every scan. And if you subscribe to your premium plans, you can also match the libraries of Pantone, RAL and NCS. The subscription may be a deal breaker for some professionals, but the free level covers a lot of soil if you mainly work with mainstream paint brands.
What do you think so far?
The device is dust and injection-resistant (IPX4), which means that it can process an untidy construction site or a day in a painted studio. It calculates via the supplied USB-C cable and now scans the resolution of the previous Mini 2, which, according to the manufacturer, offers better accuracy and faster results. It also comes with a lanyard and a diagnostic tile for calibration. If your work depends on the color accuracy – or you are only tired of guessing shadows while staring on a lacquer wall – this could be worth adding your toolkit. You only know that serious professionals who need precision at Pantone level may take into account the additional subscription costs.