Any suggestions for yellow buttons and joysticks that match

[AlienInferno]

Looking for anyone who might be able to suggest some button / joystick ball combinations.  I am wanting yellow buttons and ball tops for my sticks that match in shading.  I've seen a lot of different color shades of yellow.  Would rather buy once and not have to worry about the colors not matching exactly.  Like getting stuck with bright yellow buttons and a kind of dark tinted yellow ball top.

Links would be nice if you know some that might be good.  Otherwise maybe a product number or something so I can find it relatively easily.

[PL1]

Color matching can be tricky unless you are buying butons and balltop from the same manufacturer and/or you can do a side-by-side comparison.

Eds1275 suggested a wiki page like this to compile this type of info.

If anyone can do a side-by-side comparison of two or more products (buttons, balltops, battops, t-molding), please tell us your first-hand observations in the thread here.

Let us know what specific products you find that:
 * Do color-match
 * Almost color-match
 * Don't color-match
 * Don't color-match, but are complimentary colors (Not certain about this designation, LMK if it's a bad idea.  )
 * Match (or don't match) texture/finish

Example:

The yellow IL Compact battop stick color-matches the yellow Goldleaf pushbutton, but has a different (matte) texture.

The yellow Arcade Prime pushbutton almost color-matches the yellow IL Compact battop, but is slightly darker and has a different (smooth) texture.

Scott

[RandyT]

The Golden Yellow Hand Candy ball top and Yellow CLASSX buttons are very close.  Perfect matching is usually not possible, as the materials used differ between the parts/manufacturers. 

It's not even uncommon for two different production lots of the same part, from the same manufacturer, to vary slightly in color.

[PL1]

The Golden Yellow Hand Candy ball top and Yellow CLASSX buttons are very close.  Perfect matching is usually not possible, as the materials used differ between the parts/manufacturers.

How do those compare to your Solar Yellow 3/4-inch T-Molding?   

I agree that the perfect can be the enemy of the good -- we're just shooting for good data.   


Scott

[AlienInferno]

The Golden Yellow Hand Candy ball top and Yellow CLASSX buttons are very close.  Perfect matching is usually not possible, as the materials used differ between the parts/manufacturers. 

Randy,

I was actually looking at the different products on your site last night and came to the conclusion I was going to order those exact ones.

[shponglefan]

It's not even uncommon for two different production lots of the same part, from the same manufacturer, to vary slightly in color.

This is true.  I have multiple HAPP buttons that vary in shades of the same color.

[ChanceKJ]

Ugh, try matching black with black.  There are so many shades of, well,  black.

[RandyT]

How do those compare to your Solar Yellow 3/4-inch T-Molding?   

I agree that the perfect can be the enemy of the good -- we're just shooting for good data.   

I'd call it a "good" match.  It's a tiny bit lighter, but the hue is pretty consistent with the controls.

[Vigo]

Yellow bothers me big time when it is a "big bird yellow" combined with "Winnie-the-pooh yellow". See that all the time on circuit machines with random old happ buttons mixed in as replacements.

[PL1]

Thanks for the observations.

Color Matching Wiki page updated.

Yellow bothers me big time when it is a "big bird yellow" combined with "Winnie-the-pooh yellow". See that all the time on circuit machines with random old happ buttons mixed in as replacements.

That's why the block at the intersection of Part A and Part C is red.   


Scott

[epetti]

I was pretty happy with the match of the yellow gold leaf pushbuttons from ultimarc and the sanwa yellow ball top lb-35 (mad Katz sf4 tournament series jlf)

[PL1]

Thanks, Epetti.

Anyone have more observations before I add the Sanwa LB-35?


Scott