Measure your product and determine the L*, a*, b* values.Adobe Photoshop can be used to find the nearest Pantone Color chip to the measured color. This provides a direct colorimetric correlation of target and tolerances to the Pantone chips. If Pantone chips are being provided for targets and tolerances, a workaround is just to read in the target chips as your product standard and determining the +/- tolerances by reading in the tolerance chips. If your material is significantly different in surface roughness from the chip, you will need to verify the match visually and make adjustments to match the visual evaluation.Ģ. Prepare the color of your product to match the chip as closely as possible in terms of color difference values. If a Pantone chip is being provided as a target color, just purchase the chip (and read it in as your standard to match to.

Options for Correlating Color Values to Pantoneġ. Pantone color chips work for their design purpose as a visual guide for color communication.

They are reasonably reproducible such but if you measure several chips of the same color from different lots purchased in different locations across the country or even over time, the color values may vary. These color standards are used extensively in the graphics arts industry but were designed as a visual guide only. The Pantone Color Chip System is manufactured by off-set litho printing. It is discontinuous and designed for visual comparison and communication only. Pantone Color System is a less precise reporting scale, limited to the range of Pantone products. The use of L*, a*, b* color values is the best method of quantifying color at a high level of precision, covering the entire gamut of colors within human color perception. So please give it a try and see if it can help you identify the closest Pantone color options for your desired CMYK color combination.Due to insufficient demand, our EasyMatch QC software does not have a Pantone correlation built into it, but there are several workarounds. We employ advanced algorithms to assist in identifying the nearest Pantone color that closely resembles any given CMYK combination.Īfter thoroughly testing and months of consulting with expects, we can confidently say, that is one of the best conversion tools that provides Pantone color matching capabilities. This conversion process relies on conversion guides and color libraries, which provide a range of closely matched Pantone colors for CMYK values. You can easily work our your best matching PMS code based on any CMYK code using this tool (form below). While it’s not possible to directly convert CMYK values to Pantone values, you can find approximate Pantone color suggestions based on the CMYK values.That is exactly what we did here in this CMYK to Pantone converter. Converting CMYK color codes directly into Pantone color codes is not a straightforward process since the color systems are fundamentally different.

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