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Two guides over 1,100 colours.

The PANTONE formula guide has been an essential tool for graphic designers, pre-press professionals and printers for four decades. As today's converging workflows are making colour management more challenging than ever, the formula guide provides a consistent method for selecting and matching solid PANTONE Colours.

Its simple design provides a convenient and portable colour reference library that can accompany you at client presentations or on press runs. The guide contains a full range of 1,114 colours from the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM^®, with corresponding ink mixing formulas in parts and percentages.

The latest edition now includes an RGB icon indicating colours achievable on-screen. Colours that bear both the RGB and CMYK icons are ideal choices for designs that will span cross-media.

Other recent enhancements include larger format with more colour area, improved readability of colour data and better accessibility to all colours.

Features:

• 1,114 solid PANTONE Colours, including 14 base colours.
• Easy-to-use fan format.
• Ink mixing formulas in parts and percentages.
• Each colour identified with a distinct PANTONE Number or name.
• Colours bleed for ease and accuracy in checking colours.
• Icons are shown beneath each colour that can be satisfactorily reproduced in CMYK and/or RGB.

Benefits:

• Eliminates guesswork in colour selection and verification.
• Broad range of chromatic and neutral colours thoroughly cover colour space.
• Convenient, portable size.
• Fan format makes it easy to locate desired colours.
• Easy to communicate colours by distinct number or name.
• Shows the effect of coated and uncoated stocks on each colour.
• System supported by worldwide network of PANTONE Licensed Printing Ink Manufacturers.

The Pantone Formula Guide, Code GP1201, is a two-guide set containing 1,114 PANTONE Colours on coated and uncoated stocks.