The color change has a beautiful blend, no abrupt changes. The matte finish is almost creamy, not like any filament I've found so far.
Layers are very, very smooth with great adhesion. However, bed adhesion even with a raft resulted in a lot of lifting off the bed and curled edges; there must be substantial shrinking as it cools. The lifting started very early into printing, I worried about the entire raft detaching, but did complete without any failure.
Since I have dual extruder, I resliced with my reliable black PLA for the raft and the original extruder with this color filament. Not only did that eliminate the raft curling, the print had no curling and remained fully attached to the raft until the printing was complete.
There was a conflict on print temperatures on the two stickers, I went with the white sticker with lower temperatures to be safe. Good results except for the raft issues mentioned above.