Pantone Color Finder

Started by Joe, November 14, 2018, 11:45:16 PM

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Joe

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The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills and wills.

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very useful, I will bookmark this page.

David

OMG!
where has this been all my life?

Nice, thanks Joe!
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delooch

damn they look good on my monitor

pspdfppdfxhd

Yes, invite the pressmen over to match their jobs.

Joe

Somewhere on that site they warn you the color is not accurate on a computer monitor.

If you click on a swatch it will give you the RGB, HEX/HTML, and CMYK values.

You want to hear some spot color stupidity...we had a customer put a white box on a page and created a spot color named 'white' which shows up in the PDF as spot separation white. When Prinergy normalizes it changed it to CMYK as it should and also for some reason turned on overprint which means the white box on a blue background disappeared. Customer approved it that way. Oops...should have checked it more closely.
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The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills and wills.

Possum

I always cringe when I see a spot white.

That musta been a two-color job, white and blue.
Tall tree, short ropes, fix stupid.

Joe

No actually it was a 4 color inside cover. Luckily for me they approved it like that.
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The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills and wills.

DPSprint

I was all excited... and now its 'page not found'

 :(

Slappy

Try this, I truncated the original link it still works.
A little diddie 'bout black 'n cyan...two reflective colors doin' the best they can.

Joe

Quote from: Slappy on November 18, 2018, 03:04:31 PMTry this, I truncated the original link it still works.

Thanks for the updated link. Modified the original post.
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The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills and wills.

David

ok, got one for the PMS geeks...

what the hell is this?
and what would an actual pms spot color be for these?
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Tracy

Found this:

Pantone process colors

Pantone process colors are identified by a DS precusor, one to three digits, a dash, a single digit, and then a suffix. Pantone process colors are created using CMYK blends, and are used by designers, printers and publishers.For example, Pantone DS-97-1C
Color Prefix Suffix
Pantone DS-97-1C DS= Digital Screen C= Coated Paper

David

yeah, got all that.
These were colors used 5-10 years ago (or more) and not in use anymore from what I have found.

And, apparently even Pantone can't find a spot color match to their own colors.

The closest they come to is:
DS 213 = PMS 2767   (not even close to color)
DS 218 = PMS 2169 (wayyyy off)

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Tracy

#14
can illustrator do it? I will try if I can find that swatch

You sure the job didn't run Process previously?
that is a process swatch?
can you attach a pdf with 2 blocks of those colors?
kinda slow today :laugh: