In our everyday life we come into contact with many matt surfaces: at home, on the way to work, or at night in restaurants. In our homes most of the furniture has a matt appearance and when wood panels cover the sealing in a restaurant they are more or less matt. 

The choice between gloss or matt is not only influenced by factors relating to fashion and appearance; practical issues such as clean-ability, surface sensitivity, and haptic qualities, influence our decision too. When we travel to the office, whether it be by car, bus or rail, interior decoration is mostly matt. In schools blackboards are less glossy for antiglare reasons, and also for convenience and safety purposes. Similar aesthetic effects are also found in automobiles. For example, the economic efficiency instruments, and the interior view of the car are antiglare coated for safety reasons.

Antiglare is a topic. Skyscrapers are not painted instead, pre coated panels with coil coatings that are based on steel or aluminum are used. Most of them are matted in order to avoid dangerous reflections into the eyes of pedestrians or automobile drivers.

Economic efficiency is another important consideration when choosing between a glossy or matted surface. For example, in some coated applications scratches, craters and impurities on the substrate are not easy to recognize after applying matted coatings, whereas this is not the case with glossy surfaces.