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PANTONE is a color standard that provides color standards for people to communicate each other.
Pantone headquartered in Carlstadt, New Jersey, USA. Founded in 1963, PANTONE is a world-renowned authoritative institution specializing in the development and research of color. It is also a supplier of color systems, providing many industries including printing and other color-related products such as Professional color selection and precise communication language for digital technology, textiles, plastics, architecture and interior design.
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Pantone supports all industries that value color, including textiles, apparel, beauty,
interior decoration, architecture and industrial design, across a variety of materials such as printing,
textiles, plastics, pigments and coatings.
Pantone can be divided into
A. PMS Pantone Matching System Color Pantone Matching System
B. FHI Fashion & Home + Interiors Fashion & Home + Interiors
C. Plastic plastic series
The introduction of each series is as follows:
A . PMS Series
Mainly used for printing, packaging, and graphic design
Includes the following products
1. Pantone Formula Guide Pantone Formula Guide
***It is the commonly used C and U color codes.
***Pantone is printing the same ink on different papers,due to different paper types, the color displayed after absorbing ink will be different.
***C= Coated glossy coated paper (e.g. magazine cover)
***U= Uncoated offset paper (e.g. A4 white paper)
***Pantone color code: 100C/ U ~ 7771C/U, plus some color numbers with English characters, such as Cool Gray 3C/U, Purple C/U
***M= matte matte paper (e.g. non-reflective magazine cover), but has been discontinued
2.Pantone Metallics (e.g. 871C, 10101 C)
3.Pantone Pastels & Neons (e.g. 912C/U, Green 0921C/U)
4.Pantone CMYK / four-color printing, 2868 colors, color number P1-1C /U ~ P179-16C/U
5.Pantone Color Bridge Coated or Uncoated
**** Examples of color numbers: PANTONE 100 CP, PANTONE 100 UP
****This guide compares spot colors side by side with the closest simulated four-color overprint color.
B . Pantone Fashion, Home + Interiors System
This series is for clothing, homewares and interior design
The main difference between it and the PMS series is that
1. There is more white and black colors
2. There are paper and cloth materials (not coated and uncoated)
Color code example
PANTONE 11-0602 TCX snow white – TCX is cotton version C for cotton
PANTONE 13-0000 TCX Moonbeam -- TCX is C for cotton
PANTONE 11-0602 TPG snow white – TPG P for paper
PANTONE 13-0000 TPG Moonbeam -- TPG P for paper
There are also less commonly used
1. Pantone Nylon Brights nylon cloth fluorescent color set - 21 colors in total
*** e.g. 13-0630TN Safety Yellow --fluorescent nylon cloth N for Nylon
2. Pantone FHI Metallic Shimmers Color -- 200 colors in total e.g. 20-0001TPM
C. Pantone Plastic Colors
Pantone Plastic Standard Chips
***The colors in the Pantone Plastic Standard Chips correspond to the colors of the Pantone Matching System or the Pantone Fashion & Home + Interiors System.
***The color chips come in two levels of thickness and are made of polypropylene resin.
***Corresponding to PMS's Pantone plastic standard color chip, the color number starts with PQ, plus the color number, and ends with "C".
(e.g: PANTONE PQ-100C)
***Corresponding to FHI's Pantone plastic standard color chips, the color number starts with PQ, plus 2 color numbers, and ends with TCX.
(e.g: PQ-19-3911TCX)
****Not all PMS and FHI colors have corresponding PQ chips
Pantone Connect -- monthly fee required
Pantone Connect provides the digital way to create and share palettes created from the Pantone Color Library
Pantone Connect includes an Adobe extension that modernizes the use of Pantone colors in designs in Adobe Creative Cloud
Pantone Color of the year
Every year, Pantone selects one or two colors from the Pantone FHI series as the Color of the Year for that year, e.g. 13-1023 -- the Color of the year in 2024.
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