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screen printing => General Screen Printing => Topic started by: Maxie on July 10, 2019, 04:21:57 AM

Title: Converting colors to Pantone
Post by: Maxie on July 10, 2019, 04:21:57 AM
Customer gave me these numbers for colors
#6b7044
#e8e3dd
How do I convert them to Pantone C.
Title: Re: Converting colors to Pantone
Post by: Rockers on July 10, 2019, 06:17:51 AM
Customer gave me these numbers for colors
#6b7044
#e8e3dd
How do I convert them to Pantone C.
I got you covered.
Pantone has the right tool for exactly this purpose on their website.Using it for a while now.
Use this link

Oh and when you copy and paste the hex value only use the letters and numbers after the "#" otherwise it won`t recognize it correctly.

https://www.pantone.com/color-finder#/convert?colorSpace=hex&pantoneBook=pantoneSolidCoatedV3M2 (https://www.pantone.com/color-finder#/convert?colorSpace=hex&pantoneBook=pantoneSolidCoatedV3M2)

The Pantone color finder let`s you choose from several different color books, allows you to convert from Hex, RGB or CMYK values and offers a best match and then 4 alternative options.
Title: Re: Converting colors to Pantone
Post by: siestasol on July 10, 2019, 08:38:02 AM
Here you have another helpful links:

https://www.pantone.com/color-intelligence/color-education/x-ref (https://www.pantone.com/color-intelligence/color-education/x-ref)

https://www.ginifab.com/feeds/pms/cmyk_to_pantone.php (https://www.ginifab.com/feeds/pms/cmyk_to_pantone.php)  (at the bottom, you have more color tools).
Title: Re: Converting colors to Pantone
Post by: Prince Art on July 10, 2019, 09:56:49 AM
Another method: In Photoshop, you can open the Color Picker, paste in the HEX #, then switch to Color Libraries (Pantone solid coated), and it will give you a close match. In the case of color-critical matches, you'd probably be better off using the tool on the Pantone site. (I say based on logic, I don't know that I've used it before.)
Title: Re: Converting colors to Pantone
Post by: merchmonster on July 11, 2019, 10:47:56 AM
Thanks I added this to our wiki :D