The original intention of this post was to explain that we only work in Pantone Coated references. You can get this get access to this at the PANTONE mothership: The Beauty of C There are a number of great tools which allows the easy match of colours from different Pantone books such as form C to U or vise versa. But be aware that colours do fade on the books and they get pretty battered when being used at a printers or a studio. You can buy PANTONE books second hand through sources such as Ebay and Amazon. Ī full set of Pantone guides will set you back £450 ($700). The obvious one is the Pantone books, quite expensive is you only occasionally use colour, and the full set will set you back. Pantone have a number of great tools from transferring colour from. Tools for selecting colour or color as our American brethren say. PANTONE use both Coat (C) and Uncoated (U) References when describing colour, as colour subtly changes. Ambient light source, where is the light coming from. Colour changes depending on the situation. When we look out the window from our offices in BATH, usually the sky is far from blue, its kind of bluey grey, with a Turner-esqe touch of red… this isn’t very helpful is it… so that where the people of PANTONE come in. Take a blue for example, clients often ask for a sky blue umbrella canopy. “I would like a sky blue umbrella please” PANTONE is the absolute resource for designers, clients and printers and manufacturers to speak in the same language of colour.Īs the Inuit tribes of the north pole have 200 different names for snow, so we have for colour. We have our favourite colours, our troublesome colours and colours we think should not come out to play.
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