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For the record label, see Pantone Music. Pantone Inc. is a corporation headquartered in Carlstadt, New Jersey, USA. It is known for its Pantone color matching systems, used in a variety of industries, primarily printing, although it is sometimes used in the manufacture of colored paint, fabric and plastics. The company is most well known for their Pantone Matching System (PMS), a proprietary color space. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Pantone Music is an independent record label based in Brighton, UK, and was founded in 2004 by Gav Smith. ... Map highlighting Carlstadts location within Bergen County. ... It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles. ... Proprietary indicates that a party, or proprietor, exercises private ownership, control or use over an item of property, usually to the exclusion of other parties. ... A color model is an abstract mathematical model describing the way colors can be represented as tuples of numbers, typically as three or four values or color components (e. ... Contents 1 Overview 2 References 3 See also 4 External links [edit] Overview Pantone, as it is today, was founded in 1962, when the company -- at the time a small business which manufactured color cards for cosmetics companies -- was bought by Lawrence Herbert, who had been an employee since 1956. He immediately changed its direction, developing the first color matching system in 1963. Herbert remains the CEO, Chairman, and President of the company. A small business may be defined as a business with a small number of employees. ... The company's primary products include the Pantone Guides, which consist of a large number of small (approximately 6×2 inches or 15×5 cm) thin cardboard sheets, printed on one side with a series of related color swatches and then bound into a small flipbook. For instance, a particular "page" might contain a number of yellows varying in luminance from light to dark. Corrugated cardboard. ... Color is an important part of the visual arts. ... Luminance (also called luminosity) is a photometric measure of the density of luminous intensity in a given direction. ... Some Pantone Universe products. Pantone Universe is a brand of everyday items featured in Pantone colors. The idea behind the PMS is to allow designers to 'color match' specific colors when a design enters production stage. This system has been widely adopted by Graphic Designers, Reproduction and Printing Houses for a number of years now. Annual editions of the Pantone Guides are released, since the inks in each edition will fade over time, and Pantone recommended that PMS Color Guides be replaced yearly. Pantone guides from differing years and editions often have colors that deviate from each other (e.g. the paper stock may change color, leading to a different printed color).[1] Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2272x1704, 946 KB) Three Pantone Universe products, two pocketbooks and a coin wallet. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2272x1704, 946 KB) Three Pantone Universe products, two pocketbooks and a coin wallet. ... The Pantone Color Matching System works within existing color systems such as the CMYK system. The CMYK system is a way of making up a multitude of colors by mixing only four (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black). The majority of the world's printed material is produced using the CMYK system. The Pantone system allows users to mix percentages of base inks (such as CMYK) to create new colors, either physically (these are called spot colors) or on the printed page using screens to allow certain amounts of ink through and then overlaying the base colors. The Pantone system also allows for many 'special' colors to be specified such as metallics and fluorescents. It is only recently that Pantone have started looking at linking their existing system in with screen based colors (Screen based colors use the RGB - Red, Green, Blue - system to create various colors). Cyan, magenta, yellow, and key (black) CMYK (or sometimes YMCK) is a subtractive color model used in color printing. ... // Definition of Spot Color In offset printing, a spot color is any color generated by an ink (pure or mixed) that is printed using a single run. ... Pantone colors are described by their allocated number (eg 'Pantone 130' or sometimes referred to as 'PMS 130'). PMS colors are almost always used in branding and have even found their way into government legislation (to describe the colors of flags). In January 2003, the Scottish Parliament debated a petition (reference PE512) to define the blue in the Scottish flag (saltire) as 'Pantone 300'. As well, countries such as Canada and South Korea and organizations such as the FIA indicate specific Pantone colors to use when producing flags. It is open to speculation whether legislators realize that Pantone may choose to reformulate the color. The Dannebrog, national flag of Denmark. ... For the national legislative body up to 1707, see Parliament of Scotland. ... The Saltire, the flag of Scotland, a white saltire with an official Pantone 300 coloured field. ... The Fédération Internationale de lAutomobile, commonly referred to as the FIA, is a non-profit association established on June 20, 1904 to represent the interest of motoring organisations and motor car users. ... Pantone asserts that their list of color numbers and values is the intellectual property of Pantone and free use of the list is not allowed[2]. This is frequently held as a reason why Pantone colors cannot be supported in Open Source software such as GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) and are not often found in low-cost software. It has been claimed that "it seems as if the company is being intentionally unclear" but it is acknowledged that "the simplest claim would be trademark misappropriation or dilution towards someone who produced a color palette marketed as compatible with Pantone's"[3]. However, Pantone palettes supplied by printer manufacturers can be obtained freely, and depending on supplier, do not come with usage restriction beyond sales ban on hard copy of the palette. For the 2006 film, see Intellectual Property (movie). ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... Often, the name GIMP is used erroneously for the Gimp-Print printer driver set. ... Pantone also announced the ownership of patent 5,734,800, a six-color Hexachrome printing system. Hexachrome is Pantones six-color printing process. ... In mid-2006 Pantone, partnering with Vermont based Fine Paints of Europe, introduced a new line of interior and exterior paints. The color palette utilizes Pantone's color research and trending and has more than 3000 colors. Fine Paints of Europe is the exclusive North American importer of premium quality paints and varnishes which are manufactured in the Netherlands by Wijzonol Bouwverven B.V.. Fine Paints is located in Woodstock, VT, U.S.A. and is generally regarded as the quality and price leader in the North... [edit] References ^ Pantone Press Release, 6 May 2004. Archived from the original on 2006-01-03. Retrieved on 2007 February 23. "Colors in the new formula guide and chips books have changed due to a shift to coated paper that is brighter and whiter" ^ Pantone Terms of Use Clause 3 includes "published materials of Pantone, are protected by copyright laws and include, for example, graphic presentations, color references, PANTONE Colors, PANTONE Names, numbers, formulas and software" ^ Newsforge: Pantone and free software. Three quotes from the section "Colorful language". Retrieved 6 July 2006 For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... January 3 is the 3rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini (common) era. ... February 23 is the 54th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... [edit] See also Process color Spot color Natural Color System (NCS) and Munsell color system, other proprietary color spaces where most consumers use swatches to make color decisions; unlike Pantone, these systems are based on underlying color models rather than simply assigning names to colors. Database rights (copyright protection of databases in the EU) Process color is both a method of printing, and a method of specifying a color. ... // Definition of Spot Color In offset printing, a spot color is any color generated by an ink (pure or mixed) that is printed using a single run. ... The Natural Color System (NCS) is a perceptual color model published by the Scandinavian Colour Institute of Stockholm, Sweden. ... Munsell Color Wheel In colorimetry, the Munsell color system is a color system that specifies colors based on three color dimensions. ... Database rights are a form of exclusive right introduced by European Union Law to those countries which follow EU Law in 1996. ... [edit] External links Official website Informal discussion of intellectual property rights, including Pantone (search article) Pantone Unveils New Global Brand Identity Categories: Color space | Bergen County, New Jersey | Companies based in New Jersey

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	Wired 10.10: Living Color (1088 words) Pantone's system ensures that 16-1359 Orange Peel in Germany is identical to 16-1359 Orange Peel in Brazil, that an ad campaign launched on Madison Avenue color-matches the cell phones manufactured in China. But Pantone owns their names — or, more specifically, their designated numbers and spectro-photometric descriptions. And that's what Pantone sells, to designers of every kind and a thousand ink licensees in 65 countries — a standard reference, in the form of $3,600 cotton-swatch binders, $150 fan decks, and $300 chip books. What is Pantone Matching System (PMS)? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary (140 words) Most applications that support color printing allow you to specify colors by indicating the Pantone name or number. This assures that you get the right color when the file is printed, even though the color may not look right when displayed on your monitor. PMS works well for spot colors but not for process colors, which are generally specified using the CMYK color model.
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