Wonderful Pantone Color Mixing Guide

When it comes to graphics and print Pantones Formula Guide is the absolute worldwide standard for choosing and matching colors.

Pantone color mixing guide. Originally Pantone colors were mixed using a set of 11 base colors to achieve 500 colors and used a numeric system to identify them. When used in conjunction with physical device profiling the colors can be reproduced in a physical or digital manner. The Pantone colour guides are used by artists designers printers manufacturers marketers and clients in all industries worldwide for accurate colour identification design specification quality control and communication.

If you mix pure colors you will get clear bright and pretty results than mixing the existing mixtures. When the job goes to the press the press operator finds that color Pantone 199 Red in their Pantone guide. Pantone provides a universal language of color that enables color-critical decisions through every stage of the workflow for brands and manufacturers.

Now 14 basic colors are used as the building blocks that grew in to 1114 available colors in the formula guide. The Pantone Goe guide specifies and communicates over 2000 colors within the Pantone Goe system. The PANTONE Matching System PMS is the best known ink colour mixing system in the world today.

By mixing Blue Red and Yellow pigments together you get Black. The printer was able to reproduce these colours by mixing together two or more standard basic colours. The resulting ink is Pantone 199 Red.

Whether youre a designer looking for inspiration or a print provider needing to match colors this guide is the best way to select communicate and compare colors for logo designs packaging and signage. There is a mixing formula in the guide circled for the press operator to follow. For the PANTONE Color Bridge Guides we use the M1 lighting standard to align with industry standards for process printing.

It also provided an array of colours to graphic designers. This two-guide set contains 1114 PANTONE Colors on coated and uncoated stocks. Of Pantone Yellow ink and mixes them together.