Pantone colors can be simulated very well today. T be able in advance to see how well your Pantone color can be reproduced, we have published tables of all Pantone inks where the color differences of the Pantone colors can be looked up already before proofing.
Color variations of Pantone colors in Delta-E
Color variations of Pantone metallic colors in Delta-E
We have now even photographed some pictures that visually show how appropriate proofs on the latest Pantone subjects.
The following 84 PANTONE colors were added in February 2014 to the PANTONE Matching System and are included in the current Pantone Plus
PANTONE 2337 | PANTONE 2338 | PANTONE 2339 | PANTONE 2340
PANTONE 2341 | PANTONE 2342 | PANTONE 2343 | PANTONE 2344
PANTONE 2345 | PANTONE 2346 | PANTONE 2347 | PANTONE 2348
PANTONE 2349 | PANTONE 2350 | PANTONE 2351 | PANTONE 2352
PANTONE 2353 | PANTONE 2354 | PANTONE 2355 | PANTONE 2356
PANTONE 2357 | PANTONE 2358 | PANTONE 2359 | PANTONE 2360
PANTONE 2361 | PANTONE 2362 | PANTONE 2363 | PANTONE 2364
PANTONE 2366 | PANTONE 2367 | PANTONE 2368 | PANTONE 2369
PANTONE 2370 | PANTONE 2371 | PANTONE 2372 | PANTONE 2373
PANTONE 2374 | PANTONE 2376 | PANTONE 2377 | PANTONE 2378
PANTONE 2379 | PANTONE 2380 | PANTONE 2381 | PANTONE 2382
PANTONE 2383 | PANTONE 2384 | PANTONE 2386 | PANTONE 2387
PANTONE 2388 | PANTONE 2389 | PANTONE 2390 | PANTONE 2391
PANTONE 2392 | PANTONE 2393 | PANTONE 2394 | PANTONE 2396
PANTONE 2397 | PANTONE 2398 | PANTONE 2399 | PANTONE 2400
PANTONE 2401 | PANTONE 2402 | PANTONE 2403 | PANTONE 2404
PANTONE 2406 | PANTONE 2407 | PANTONE 2408 | PANTONE 2409
PANTONE 2410 | PANTONE 2411 | PANTONE 2412 | PANTONE 2413
PANTONE 2414 | PANTONE 2416 | PANTONE 2417 | PANTONE 2418
PANTONE 2419 | PANTONE 2420 | PANTONE 2421 | PANTONE 2422
PANTONE 2423 | PANTONE 2424 | PANTONE 2426 | PANTONE 2427
The following six PANTONE colors are dispensed compared to PANTONE 50th Anniversary compartments of 2012:
PANTONE Medium Yellow | PANTONE Bright orange | Red PANTONE STRONG
PANTONE Medium Blue | PANTONE Bright Green | PANTONE Neutral Black
Pantone has added a further 84 colors to ist Pantone Plus color palette in March 2014. The the total amount of the Pantone Plus color now extends to 1755 colors as Pantone writes on his website. The colors were – matching the Pantone color of the year: Radiant Orchid – expanded in the Rouge and Pink range, based on the previous base colors.
Two other changes compared to the previous 50th Anniversary PANTONE guides are visible:
For the CMYK guides and the Premium Metallics and Neons & pastel color guides only the cover pages have been updated. Graphic artists and the printing industry should forthwith upgrade its Solid Coated and Solid Uncoated guides to those of 2014 or newer.
Since the year 2010, there has been chaos in the PANTONE Plus color portfolio, which is not improved by the new color guides generation. At present, there are four parallel Pantone Plus color guides on the market, three of them with different number of colors included in the guide, although that is hardly communicated by Pantone.
The same is true for the Pantone product partners such as Adobe: Hardly any graphic designer knows what Pantone Plus color are integrated into Adobe the specific Version since neither Pantone nor Adobe characterize their color guide generation different. Pantone’s statement: “Compatible with today’s digital workflows – colors can be easily updated in leading design applications” translates rather: “What Pantone colors you see in your application, is pure cuincidence – depending on the update status and your manual intervention.”
Current proofing systems can print spot colors like Pantone or HKS very accurate. With Fiery XF 5.2 Proof software and the Epson 7900/9900 proof printers we evaluated, with which color deviation PANTONE Solid Coated and PANTONE Solid Uncoated colors can be reproduced in proofing.
The color deviations were calculated based on the measured color space of the proof system of Proof GmbH by the proofing software. Deviations should therefore be quite similar in practice. Almost all PANTONE colors can be simulated quite well in the wide color gamut of the proofer.
The smaller the Delta-E value, the lower is the color distance of the PANTONE reference to the proofed PANTONE color. Higher Delta-E values show, which PANTONE Colors can’t be simulated accurately in the proof.
| Pantone Farbe Solid Coated |
Farbabweichung im Proof in Delta-E (∆E) |
Pantone Farbe Solid Uncoated |
Farbabweichung im Proof in Delta-E (∆E) |
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| PANTONE 100 C | 0.89 ∆E | PANTONE 100 U | 1.69 ∆E | |
| PANTONE 101 C | 0.60 ∆E | PANTONE 101 U | 1.62 ∆E | |
| PANTONE 102 C | 1.23 ∆E | PANTONE 102 U | 1.40 ∆E | |
| PANTONE 103 C | 0.72 ∆E | PANTONE 103 U | 0.49 ∆E | |
| PANTONE 104 C | 0.48 ∆E | PANTONE 104 U | 0.92 ∆E | |
| PANTONE 105 C | 0.80 ∆E | PANTONE 105 U | 1.07 ∆E Continue reading |