PANTONE Color Guides and Chips
The PANTONE Matching System (PMS) is the dominant spot color printing system in the United States. Pantone, Inc. sells color guides (known as swatch books) and chips for both their spot colors and for process color printing. Learn more about Pantone colors and where to obtain swatch books.
When you do both process and spot color work, these Pantone color guides and reference materials provide color-matching tools for both types of printing.
Use these Panton Process Color books to make more accurate color selections for process color printing (4-color or cmyk). Find the best Pantone Process Color Swatch Books for desktop publishing.
These Pantone Spot Color guides are your best bets for accurate color-matching with solid PANTONE spot colors. Find the right swatch book for your desktop publishing needs.
An explanation of the types and formats for PANTONE guides to help you decide which kind you need.
List organized by type of guide to help you see what kinds of fan-guides and chips are available in which format along with a brief description of the contents. For print design.
Are PANTONE 3258 C, PANTONE 3258 U, and PANTONE 3258 CVU the same color? Yes and No. Find out what those suffixes really mean and why consistency in naming your colors is important.
Your best bets for swatch books when you need a variety of spot and process color guides and want to save a little money over purchasing guides separately.
Guide selections of the main swatch books to consider for specifying CMYK colors for process printing.
Guide selections of the main swatch books to consider for picking PMS colors.
