PANTONE Formula Guide Set - Coated and Uncoated

The world’s #1 color communication tool for graphics and print.

Bring your color ideas to life with the latest Pantone® Formula Guide—the essential tool for designers who need to inspire, select, and communicate color with confidence. This versatile, end-to-end color matching resource includes all 2,614 market-driven spot colors in the Pantone Graphics System across coated and uncoated paper stocks, including 224 brand new Pantone Matching System (PMS) colors that burst with nostalgia and joy. Compact, handheld fan decks make it easy to reference and compare colors on the go, while trusted ink formulations help ensure accurate spot color reproduction from design through print production. 

• Brings your ideas to life with the most trusted physical color standard for branding, print, and packaging design
• Gives you instant access to a huge range of on-trend colors, including hundreds of new shades to spark fresh creative direction
• Helps you design with confidence by showing how colors will actually appear on both coated and uncoated stock
• Makes collaboration easier by giving designers, clients, and printers a shared color language from concept to final production
• Fits naturally into a fast-paced workflow with portable fan decks that make color selection and approval easy wherever work happens

FEATURES

• Helps ensure consistent color reproduction in branding, logos, marketing, packaging, and other graphic design applications on a range of different materials
• Portable, handheld fan decks provide easy on-the-go reference
• Versatile end-to-end tool for everything from design inspiration to press check
• Printed on most used paper stock weights: 100 lb (168 gsm) coated and 80 lb uncoated (118 gsm)
• Lighting indicator page demonstrates when lighting conditions are suitable for proper color evaluation
• Considered the ultimate tool for inspiring, matching, and communicating color to those in graphic design, digital design, product design, and printing

COLORS

• Features 224 new on-trend graphics colors displayed in the front of the guide
• Includes 2,614 total colors with the largest gamut in the Pantone Graphics System
• Enhanced printing process provides improved color accuracy

APPLICATION

• Use for inspiration and production in designing logos, branding and marketing materials, packaging, and for additional applications such as architecture, industrial design, and manufacturing
• Ink formulations help printers accurately achieve Pantone Spot Colors on printed materials
• Use to communicate consistent color throughout workflows and supply chains around the world

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