Pantone is known around the world as the standard colour language for designers and for large industries. Lawrenece Herbert was the founder of the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM 1962 that solved the problems related to colour matching. The company's main goal at that time was to create colour guides at the highest detail as possible.
Example - Having a red colour in detailed print on a flip book with a vast range from light red to dark red and all of them are coded.
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| The Pantone colour chart. Businesses like SIGMA paints uses Pantones to match their paint colours. |
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| Sigma Paint Pantones. |
The image below is an example of the format that Pantone use to identify the colours.
The settings to obtain the colour for both RGB and CMYK are shown and the colour code for web designers to use for their websites. The C after the number stands for Coated paper(GLOSS). U stands for Uncoated paper and M stands for Matte
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