What is PANTONE Color Card? Features and usage of PANTONE color card

PANTONE color card, as a standard reference for conveying color information, acts as a standard language in the process of color design, communication and reproduction. This paper briefly introduces the label rules and meaning of PANTONE color card, and the use of PANTONE color card.

What is PANTONE Color Card:

PANTONE printing color code is a very popular printing ink Matching System in the world, widely used in printing, publishing, packaging, design and various color information transferring field, has become a default standard in the industry, and has been translated as "Pantone color code" in our country. Many international popular product packaging and trademark color, are represented by pantone color label. As long as the Pantone standard ink and the proportion specified by the label are used, the color consistency can be guaranteed regardless of the country in which it is printed. Therefore, when designing product packaging and trademarks, as long as the Pantone color label is marked, the accurate printing and communication of the printing color can be ensured, which has become a method often used for long-distance and cross-regional printing color calibration. PANTONE color card, as a standard reference for conveying color information, acts as a standard language in the process of color design, communication and reproduction. Users only need to flip through the color card against the color number to find the color number corresponding to the color.

Rule and meaning of the PANTONE color card label:

1. Indicates the label rule of the PANTONE color card

Pantone color label Each color has a label, and there is the ink dot ratio or ink formula for that color. Take the Pantone Color Formula Guide as an example, the color code uses more than 20 basic inks, and all other colors are made from basic inks in a certain proportion. For example, the green PANTONE339C sample, which is composed of six parts PANTONE printing blue, two parts PANTONE yellow and eight parts PANTONE white ink, the three ink accounts for 37.5%, 12.5% and 50% respectively. "C" means printed on Coated paper, and color samples printed on Uncoated paper are marked with the word "U". According to the formula and proportion of ink given by the color code, printing on the specified paper can easily obtain the required spot color. Because the PANTONE spot color uses more primary colors to adjust the color, the resulting printing color gamut is also larger than the four-color printing gamut.

2.PANTONE Indicates the meaning of the color label

PANTONE color number, is the United States PANTONE can produce a variety of colors in accordance with a certain arrangement of the law into a color card, and in accordance with the PANTONE001, PANTONE002 rules to number. The color numbers we routinely come into contact with are generally composed of numbers and letters, such as: 105Cpantone represents the effect of printing PANTONE105 color on glossy coated paper. We can generally judge the type of color number according to the letter after the number. For example, C means glossy coated paper (coated paper), U means matte book paper (uncoated paper), TPX means textile paper plate, TC means cotton plate color cards, etc.