Pantone, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of X-Rite, Incorporated, is the world-renowned authority on color. For more than 45 years, Pantone has been inspiring design professionals with products, services and leading technology for the colorful exploration and expression of creativity. The PANTONE name is known worldwide as the standard language for accurate color communication, from designer to manufacturer to retailer to customer, across a variety of industries.

 

In 1963, Pantone created an innovative system for identifying, matching and communicating colors to solve the problems associated with producing accurate color matches in the graphic arts community. Pantone has since expanded its color matching system concept to other color-critical industries, including digital technology, fashion, home, plastics, architecture and contract interiors, and paint. Today,

MARKETS & PRODUCTS

Each year, innumerable products and services are sold by Pantone and its hundreds of licensees in over 100 countries in the graphic arts, fashion, home, interior, plastics, architectural, paint, industrial design and consumer markets.

 

Graphic Arts – Printing, Publishing & Packaging

PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM

PANTONE FORMULA GUIDE

PANTONE 4-COLOR PROCESS GUIDES 

PANTONE COLOR BRIDGE® GUIDES 

Other PANTONE Color Reference Guides include METALLIC, PASTEL and TINTS.

PANTONE HEXACHROME® Color System

PANTONE Goe System.

  

Fashion & Home

PANTONE FASHION + HOME Color System

PANTONE SMART Color Swatch Card System

PANTONE VIEW Home

 

Paint

In 2006, Pantone partnered with Fine Paints of Europe to create PANTONE PAINTS, a line of premium-quality Dutch paint, empowering designers and consumers with the ability to match 3,000 PANTONE Colors in paint.

Plastics

The PANTONE PLASTICS Color System™ allows designers, manufacturers and suppliers who work with plastics to select, specify, control and manufacture hundreds of colors through opaque and transparent plastic color chips in the system. It offers a comprehensive color range that is reproducible in plastics.

 

Color Cue® 2

PANTONE Color Cue 2 is a portable, affordable, spectro-colorimeter preprogrammed with PANTONE Color data. It instantly identifies the closest PANTONE Color of any flat surface, empowering designers across the graphic arts, fashion, home, architecture and interior design industries to identify color inspirations and match them to PANTONE Colors wherever the go.

With approximately 9,000 PANTONE Colors in a single, handheld device, Color Cue 2 allows users to toggle across multiple PANTONE Libraries and move effortlessly from color inspiration to realization, regardless of the medium.