Pantone® system
a patented printing ink color matching system involving a range of stock colors with which, by intermixing in prescribed combination and amounts, an ink mixer can obtain a wide range of tints, tones, shadings, ...
Pantone
Used for printing solid-color and CMYK inks. The Pantone Matching System includes 1,114 solid colors. To select a color, use a PANTONE Color guide, printed on coated, uncoated, and matte stocks.
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Pantone
Pantone sells the new $89 "huey" (sic) monitor calibration system. The system is made by GretagMacbeth. It is similar to the Colorvision calibrator I use and ads the nifty feature of adjusting the calibration to changing ambient light.
Pantone
A colour scale consisting of about 3,000 gradations in tone that is used in editing digital images.
Open Pantone Sample Colors image from Shutterstock.
Too many to count?
Short for Pantone Matching System; a trademarked standard for specifying and producing spot colors using proprietary ink mixes.
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PANTONE ColoursA colour system of over 1200 standard colours developed by Pantone, Inc. The PMS Pantone Matching System is a swatch book that describes colours by assigning them numbers.
For example, scan a swatch of Pantone Reflex Blue, which we know from Pantone is R=0, G=32, B=159. Scanner A may read the swatch as R=2, G=32 and B=159, and Scanner B may read it as R=0, G=33, B=158, and so forth.
Update 6/11/2005 - With new inexpensive options such as the Pantone Huey ($89 list price) there's really no excuse not to profile your monitor. At least I can't think of any....
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Separate colours can be added on a separate plate to create special effects such as gold ink or a varnished area that can not be made up from CMYK in the standard Pantone range. These are called spot colours.
 See also: Digital, Color, Image, Print, Light
  
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