By Appointment to Her Majesty The Queen Manufacturers of Wood Finishes Morrells Wood Finishes Ltd Stockport
DayGlo® Wood Finishes
DayGlo® PINK
Our standard Pre-Catalyst, Acid-Catalyst and VLi® PU fastmatch lacquers are available in striking DayGlo® colours, including PINK, RED, ORANGE, GREEN, YELLOW, MAGENTA, STRONG MAGENTA, BLUE and VIOLET
DayGlo® RED
Our standard Pre-Catalyst, Acid-Catalyst and VLi® PU fastmatch lacquers are available in striking DayGlo® colours, including PINK, RED, ORANGE, GREEN, YELLOW, MAGENTA, STRONG MAGENTA, BLUE and VIOLET
DayGlo® ORANGE
Our standard Pre-Catalyst, Acid-Catalyst and VLi® PU fastmatch lacquers are available in striking DayGlo® colours, including PINK, RED, ORANGE, GREEN, YELLOW, MAGENTA, STRONG MAGENTA, BLUE and VIOLET
DayGlo® GREEN
Our standard Pre-Catalyst, Acid-Catalyst and VLi® PU fastmatch lacquers are available in striking DayGlo® colours, including PINK, RED, ORANGE, GREEN, YELLOW, MAGENTA, STRONG MAGENTA, BLUE and VIOLET
DayGlo® STRONG MAGENTA
Our standard Pre-Catalyst, Acid-Catalyst and VLi® PU fastmatch lacquers are available in striking DayGlo® colours, including PINK, RED, ORANGE, GREEN, YELLOW, MAGENTA, STRONG MAGENTA, BLUE and VIOLET
DayGlo® YELLOW
Our standard Pre-Catalyst, Acid-Catalyst and VLi® PU fastmatch lacquers are available in striking DayGlo® colours, including PINK, RED, ORANGE, GREEN, YELLOW, MAGENTA, STRONG MAGENTA, BLUE and VIOLET
DayGlo® MAGENTA
Our standard Pre-Catalyst, Acid-Catalyst and VLi® PU fastmatch lacquers are available in striking DayGlo® colours, including PINK, RED, ORANGE, GREEN, YELLOW, MAGENTA, STRONG MAGENTA, BLUE and VIOLET
DayGlo® BLUE
Our standard Pre-Catalyst, Acid-Catalyst and VLi® PU fastmatch lacquers are available in striking DayGlo® colours, including PINK, RED, ORANGE, GREEN, YELLOW, MAGENTA, STRONG MAGENTA, BLUE and VIOLET
DayGlo® VIOLET
Our standard Pre-Catalyst, Acid-Catalyst and VLi® PU fastmatch lacquers are available in striking DayGlo® colours, including PINK, RED, ORANGE, GREEN, YELLOW, MAGENTA, STRONG MAGENTA, BLUE and VIOLET
WORLD’S LARGEST MANUFACTURER OF DAYLIGHT FLUORESCENT PIGMENTS
Day-Glo Color Corp., a sister brand based in Cleveland, Ohio, is the world’s largest manufacturer of daylight fluorescent pigments. They develop technologies that improve and enhance any color, from subtle specialty effects, to glow-in-the-dark pigments, to the classic range of fluorescents that react under black light.
With their extensive technical expertise and diversified product lines, DayGlo has served the world’s color marketplace since the 1930’s. At DayGlo, they even make colors better – richer reds, deeper blues, and even make colors glow in the dark!
Discover for yourself our DayGlo Acid-Catalysts, Pre-Catalysed, Waterbased and Polyurethane colors.
THE FLUORESCENT COLOR THEORY
So how exactly does a fluorescent color fluoresce? It’s all about energy!
A fluorescent dye molecule begins at the lowest state of energy possible – the Ground State. When light shines on it, a photon of light is absorbed by the molecule. In effect, energy is absorbed. This excites the electrons inside the molecule to higher energy states – known as the Excited State. The excited electrons soon lose some of their energy to their surroundings, which prompts them to transition back to their unexcited state – the Ground State. In order to transition back, the electrons need to emit the photon of light absorbed.
This flash of light (the emission of the photon) is the fluorescence we see.
FLUORESCENT COLORS
How do fluorescent colors behave differently?
Fluorescent colors use a larger amount of both the visible spectrum and the lower wavelengths compared to conventional colors. They not only absorb and convert light energy of the dominant wavelength but also the wavelengths of ultraviolet rays and other colors lower in the visible spectrum. As a result, your eye perceives a far more intense color.
Where a clean, bright conventional color is able to reflect a maximum of 90% of a color present in the spectrum, a fluorescent color can reflect as much as 200% to 300%.
THE MECHANISM OF COLOR
The color spectrum is much larger than we can perceive!
The range moves from invisible, low-energy infrared rays to high-energy ultraviolet rays. The ‘visible light spectrum,’ or the colors that we see, are actually in the middle of the range.
Normal color absorbs and re-emits a portion of the visible spectrum that matches its principal wavelength, while the remaining colors are absorbed and dissipated as heat. In this way, a regular orange color re-emits back to your eye just the narrow orange band of the visible light spectrum. Therefore, if there is little or no orange light around (such as early dawn or dusk) the orange surface would appear dark or even black.