Pantone LLC’s CMYK Coated and Uncoated Guides are now available printed using G7 Calibration, making them achievable to any print provider in the world. The CMYK Guides offer more colors to choose from, with 1,889 coated colors that do not match any existing Pantone Formula Guide Coated color, and 1,653 unique uncoated colors that do not match any existing Pantone Formula Guide Uncoated color.
The CMYK Guides are an ideal way to visualize, communicate and control colors for type, logos, borders, backgrounds and other treatments. It is printed to the G7 technical standard, using CRPC reference press spaces for #1 coated and uncoated paper to the G7 Colorspace conformance level. In addition, colors that already match the main Pantone colors will be marked so that unique colors can be identified with ease.
Pantone is said to be the only internationally recognized color communication system, allowing users to specify Pantone colors. More than 10 million designers and producers around the world rely on Pantone Products and Services to help define, communicate and control color from inspiration to realization – leveraging advanced X-Rite technology to achieve color consistency across various materials and finishes for graphics, fashion, and product design.
According to Lou Prestia, Senior Product Manager at Pantone, by marking the unique colours, designers can find colours ‘in-between’ traditional Pantone Graphics colors, and because the Guides are printed CMYK, all the colors are achievable on a modern printing press or digital press.
