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I need a "real" diverse palette of colors.  Currently I have a palette 
of about 2000 colors, I put together years ago, but do not have "good" 
RGB colors for different brown, copper, silver, and gold, styles of 
colors.  The ones I have are not that good. 

What you need is palettes with metallic colours and a software that can store them as spot colours, 
because otherwise you won't be able to export any file that a digital print shop can use. 
LibreOffice is the wrong software for this purpose. You should also be aware of the fact that 
metallic and neon colours depend on the printing machines available in a print shop. For instance, 
a shop using Roland equipment will only be able to reproduce Roland metallics etc.

You won't find any metallics or neons in the OCSC for the reasons I mentioned.


Finding good metallic colors 
are always - for me - a pain for both LibreOffice and GIMP. I know the 
.soc "standard" for LO, but not what GIMP uses.

GIMP, Inkscape, MyPaint etc. are really behind when it comes to palette files, because a SOC file 
doesn't need anything but RGB values (and licensing information). However, the other programmes I 
mentioned are more ambitious than LibreOffice, but the GPL format is just plain RGB values. No CMYK 
colours, no spot colours, which is a shame.

If you need metallic colours for printing with a Roland machine, I could create a SOC file and send 
it to you privately, but I doubt that it would be of any help. Exporting files for this kind of 
specialised printer is  simply beyond the scope of LibreOffice.

Christoph

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