The Pantone Reference Library provides users with access to their entire suite of color resources. You'll be able to browse, share, and compare any of Pantone's 8482 total colors, which are made up of 2390 traditional spot colors, 2359 spot-to-process colors, 2868 four-color process colors, and 865 specialty metallic, pastel, and neon spot colors.
This Reference Library is made up of Pantone's Formula Guide, Color Bridge Guide Set, CMYK Guide, Metallics Guide, Pastels & Neons Guide, Solid Chips Book, Pastels & Neons Chips Book, and Metallic Chips Book, which are printed in eight fan decks and four three-ring binders. By bringing together Pantone's Graphics guide and solid chip books, users will have access to a centralized resource for purposes that include color exploration and comparison to specification and quality control. Find inspiration for palette building, logo design and branding, marketing materials, digital and web graphics, and more.
Share, compare, communicate, and match colors with this updated edition of the Pantone Formula Guide (Coated & Uncoated), which contains 2390 spot colors in the Pantone Graphics System on coated and uncoated paper stocks. Updated with 224 new Pantone Matching System (PMS) colors, the guide also features five new eco-friendly Pantone base mixing inks compatible with coating in print production processes. This formula guide uses compact, handheld fan decks to provide easy, on-the-go physical references for the actual appearance of Pantone Colors in digital design applications, and include essential formulations for mixing spot color inks to properly match Pantone Formula Guide colors. An integrated lighting indicator page helps to assess correct lighting conditions for accurate readings. The colors are also arranged in chromatic format, with each color displayed with its corresponding number and ink formulation and a helpful index in the back provides the numeric location for each color.
Perfect for designers working across various platforms, the Color Bridge Guide Set (coated & uncoated) from Pantone helps you find suitable replacement values for Pantone spot colors in CMKY, RGB, and HTML formats. Featuring 2139 PMS (Pantone Matching System) spot colors, including 294 new trend colors, this guide set helps you visualize colors in various applications, as with other Pantone decks, and then find the suitable replacement value for CMYK when process printing is the final medium, or RGB and HTML for digital applications. For added consistency and quality, CMYK values are produced using G7 calibrated CRPC6 and CRPC3 press references to better represent industry standard color management and printing conditions, as well as direct results of moving from a PMS spot color to its process color equivalent. The wide array of colors is featured in two handheld fan decks with 100 pound coated and 80 pound uncoated stocks, plus an integrated lighting indicator page so you can assess correct lighting conditions for accurate readings. The colors are arranged in chromatic format, and each color is displayed with its corresponding number and ink formulation. A helpful index in the back provides the numeric location for each color.
Please note that Pantone books should be replaced 12-18 months after opening due to color shifts and fading that occurs over time.
Design with confidence, knowing your colors are achievable on almost any conventional or digital press with the CMYK Color Guide Set (Coated & Uncoated) from Pantone. It contains 2868 CMYK colors, chromatically arranged for a more user friendly color browsing and selection process. Colors are marked to identify which colors have a PMS Formula Guide equivalent color, while ones without an asterisk are unique, meaning they don't have a close Pantone Matching System (PMS) spot color equivalent. These colors are designed for branding, packaging, and materials used in smaller brand campaigns where fresh, less exposed colors are desired. Each book contains thousands of unique colors with no PMS equivalent.
These guides are calibrated to exacting G7 specifications so users can achieve more accurate and consistently achievable results in real world printing conditions, as a G7 calibrated print process means that tints will closely match color appearance in your CMYK Guide when proofed or printed using G7 press reference conditions. Also, thanks to Pantone Connect, you'll be able to select, save, and share your CMYK color choices with those in your design workflow.
Designed for projects that include printing, packaging, logos, branding, signage, marketing materials, and more, the Metallics Guide from Pantone features a total of 655 metallic colors, including 54 trend- and market-relevant colors using Rose Gold base ink. Bundled as a portable, handheld fan deck, the Metallics Guide is printed on 100 pound coated paper stock, and a lighting indicator page demonstrates when lighting conditions are suitable for color evaluation.
Design more eye-catching visuals with the coated and uncoated Pastels & Neons Guide from Pantone. This guide features 210 total colors, including 154 pastel and 56 neon specialty spot colors to broaden and complement the Formula Guide to Pantone Spot Colors. Each color is displayed with its corresponding number and ink formulation, and colors are arranged with pastels before neons, in a chromatic format, with coated versions in the front. An index at the back of the guide provides the numeric location for each color.
The Solid Chips Book (Coated & Uncoated) from Pantone provides users with access to the largest color gamut in the Pantone graphics system. You'll be able to browse, share, and reference any of the 2390 Pantone Spot Color Chips in the Formula Guide, which has been updated with 224 new colors. The ring-bound format of the books allows the color chips and pages to be removed, re-inserted, and replaced as necessary, while stray chips and palettes may be organized using the Paper Chip Savers. You'll also be able to import physical Pantone colors into your Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator designs using Pantone Connect.
- Perforated, removable Spot Color Chips makes sharing easy
- Ring-bound, two-volume desktop reference book enables impressive presentations and allows for page replacements
- Includes two Paper Chip Savers to organize and store loose Color Chips or Color collections
- Browse a wide selection of colors at a glance, as each page provides up to seven Pantone Colors with six individual 1.2 x 0.8" chips per color provided
- Printed on common paper stock weights: 100 lb 148 gsm-coated and 80 lb 118 gsm-uncoated
- 224 new, trend- and market-relevant graphics colors added
- Includes 2390 total Spot Color Chips, the largest color gamut in the Pantone Graphics system
- Enhanced printing process for improved color accuracy
- Color Chips arranged in chromatic format, with new color pages in the front of the books
- Each Color Chip displayed with its corresponding number or name
- Removable chip format has three-sided color bleed, most ideal when evaluating color
- Index in the front of the books provides the numeric location for each color
- Tolerance aim <2dE0 to our master standard data
- Provides Pantone Spot colors in the easiest format for building palettes and mood boards, and for color specification, sharing, and evaluation
- Add Replacement Chip Pages when colors run out (sold separately)
- Bring Color to Life, Digitally: Learn how Pantone Connect for Adobe Creative Cloud allows you to take your physical Pantone colors into your digital workflow through Adobe Creative Cloud (InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator)
The Pastels & Neons Chips Book from Pantone presents their modern collection of soothing pastels and bright neons as sharable, perforated chips on coated and uncoated paper. Use this versatile format for adding color into design palettes, mood boards, or product sketches, attaching color to design files for sharing with your production partners, and for approving color on press.
The Metallic Chips Book from Pantone presents a complete collection of 655 metallic colors for print and packaging, broken down into 354 high-luster, durable packaging metallic and 301 traditional metallic spot colors. Pantone Metallics provide economic color options that are easy to use, specify, and amplify for luxurious and dynamic results. Coating options are included within the chip book for a quick reference to just a few of the many ways that metallic effects can be enhanced for your projects' needs. Pantone Colors are high quality, reliable, and available off-the-shelf anywhere you go. Use for packaging, logos, branding, signage, and marketing materials.
