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The individual calibrations of TBB and BB showed precisions with minimum values of 0.012 pH units at pH = 2.196 for TBB and 0.018 at pH = 6.692 for BB. The overall precision of 10 spots of the mixture TBB\/BB increased in the pH range of 1.000\u20138.000 from a minimum value of pH precision of 0.009 at pH = 2.196 to 0.012 at pH = 6.692, with the worst value of 0.279 pH units at pH = 4.101. The possibility to produce an array with much more than 10 spots allows for improving precision. The H analytical performance was compared to those of other color spaces such as RGB, Lab, and XYZ. H was the best one, with prediction error in the range of 0.016 to 0.021 pH units, at least three times lower than the second-best (x coordinate), with 0.064 pH units. 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