PANTONE are the world renowned authority for the selection and communication of colour. With over 40 years experience, the PANTONE name has become known worldwide as "the standard" for colour specification. Whether you are designing a logo, producing printed material, originating advertisments, or manufacturing textiles, PANTONE is the colour standard that is universally understood and used in over 100 countries.
PANTONE guides, books, chips and other colour products are manufactured to satisfy the discriminating colour needs of design and graphics professionals. Use these ink and paint publications to confidently communicate solid, metallic, pastel and process colours. They allow you to accurately implement colour standards on all types of materials, paper stocks and substrates.
Printing, Publishing, Packaging and Graphic Arts
The PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM is the definitive international reference for selecting, specifying, matching and controlling ink colours. See our PANTONE Colour Guides pages for further details of all products.
Hexachrome
The PANTONE Hexachrome colour System, is a six-colour ultra high quality printing process, that reproduces an impressive range of more brilliant colours than four-colour process. Hexachrome is supported by software from Adobe, Macromedia, Quark and many others.
Textiles
The PANTONE TEXTILE colour System is for those in the fashion and interior design industries, and is a vital tool for selecting colour used in the manufacture of textiles. The System - consisting of 1,932 colours in paper or cotton formats, is ideal for conceptual colour schemes, and the manufacturing process.
Plastics
The PANTONE PLASTICS colour System allows the selection and specification of hundreds of colours both opaque and transparent in plastics.
Color Cue™
The PANTONE Color Cue is a portable spectro-colourimeter with the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM colour data preprogrammed. It identifies the closest PANTONE colour match to any flat surface, and provides formulas for reproduction in four-colour process printing, Hexachrome six-colour printing, RGB and Web design. PANTONE Color Cue has applications in many industries: Graphic designers can immediately determine a PANTONE colour and its values for print and the Web. Printers can sample colour to identify to the closest PANTONE colour standard. Marketing department and agencies can swiftly easily identify and communicate colour across marketing materials and Web sites. A textiles version of the Pantone Color Cue, the PANTONE Color Cue TX, supporting the PANTONE TEXTILE colour System is also available.
Retail
In 2001, PANTONE launched its PANTONE TheRightcolour™ division. TheRightcolour solutions enable retailers to reduce the number of returns due to inaccurate colour representation. In addition, the ability to monitor customer colour preferences enables up selling and cross-selling, allowing the retailer to sell more product per visit.
Consumer
PANTONE UNIVERSE is a collection of lifestyle products for the consumer. The collection, consists of stationery, travel kit, accessories and wet weather wear, and offers modern materials with current trend colours. Products, which are updated seasonally based on trends, are accompanied by "emotional colour cues".
PANTONE Shopping colour Guide lets shoppers take the precision of the PANTONE Name wherever they go. Based on the PANTONE TEXTILE colour System, the PANTONE Shopping colour Guide incorporates 1,757 colours into an easy-to-use fan guide that helps shoppers coordinate colours from clothing and accessories, to home ware.
Colour Management
PANTONE in alliance with ColourVision, now provide affordable digital colour control to graphic artists, designers, photographers and printers. With exclusive products for photo, design, Web and pre-press applications. The flagship product of the PANTONE ColourVISION® line is the award-winning Spyder2™, an all-digital, seven-filter colourimeter that supports both LCD and CRT monitors.
Software
PANTONE software offers you avariety of products that accurately translate PANTONE colours for use by graphic designers, pre-press professionals, business users, Web developers and Internet surfers.
- PANTONE Officecolour Assistant™ adds the impact of PANTONE colours to reports, proposals and presentations created in Microsoft® PowerPoint®, Word and Excel.
- PANTONE colorist lets designers point-and-click PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM colours into Web authoring software, HTML editors and presentation software.
- The PANTONE Hexachrome colour System is supported by PANTONE HexWare® plug-ins for Adobe® Photoshop® and Adobe Illustrator®.
Scales
PANTONE formula scales are pre-programmed with formulas for all PANTONE colours, including pastels and metallics, and are available in two sizes allowing for the mixing of up to 25kg of ink.
R & D
PANTONE supports its colour communications systems with industry-specific research and testing labs, developing new formulas to update the PANTONE colour palettes and maintain the integrity of PANTONE-licensed products. Textile Lab technicians dye and prepare fabric for the PANTONE TEXTILE colour System swatch books, as well as provide custom colour dying services to textile clients. Electronic colour Systems Lab engineers develop systems and calibration devices to assist software and hardware manufacturers in the DTP world that support device-independent colour standards.
Custom colour Services
PANTONE Custom colour Services provide custom colour standards for corporate managers and art directors in fashion, home, contract design, paint, beauty, automotive, sports, pharmaceutical - any industry requiring colour accuracy. They also provide products to specify corporate identity, product colour and packaging standards on paper, cotton or custom substrates, as well as the corresponding CMYK, HTML and RGB values.
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