![]() Some clients prefer to colour match themselves from their own screen or some trust their textile designer’s visual eye to do this for them.Īnother important point is that colours on our screen reflect more light than the colours in our Pantone book, so here you may need to use your own discretion when making colour choices. So for example, your colour on screen may look similar to two or three Pantone colours in the guide, so you’ll just need to make that decision based on what you personally prefer. With the process of option two matching the chosen colours to Pantone codes, we usually match to what we see and like on our own screen. You can give your designer an idea of the colour palette and number of colours you would like in your print design and then once you’re happy with the colours in the artwork at the final stages, the Pantones can be picked out to match what you see. You can pre pick your Pantones to suit your collection and give these to your textile designer at briefing stage. ![]() When working with a textile designer, you can implement the use of Pantone colours in two ways. If you want to know more about this process you can read my previous post about screen and digital printing. This is because, during the screen printing process, each screen is cut for each individual colour in a print design, so you’ll want to give your manufacturer an exact colour and ink to be prepared for that screen. Pantone colours are super neccessay when it comes to designing and producing a print design that will be screen printed. You can also buy these new colours in a separate book! There are also new colours that Pantone adds to their guides every so often. Depending on how heavily you use your guide and the amount of sun exposure it’s had, Pantone recommends you replace your book every year. Pro Tip: The Pantone colour inks can fade over time. Take a look at the fashion Pantone range here. I currently use the fan deck version but the chip set works really well when matching each colour in your artwork as you’re able to take out each individual chip and hold it against your design to get a perfect match. (Textile Paper Green- all lead and chromium content from the TPX products have been removed for an environmentally friendly update!) Most of my clients and I use a Paper Version. ![]() This is the TPX guide or just recently updated to the TPG guide. Paper Version (TPX/TPG): luckily, there’s a much more cost effective option, which is to go for Pantone’s paper version of the cotton colour system. However, these can be quite costly and range from a few hundred to even a few thousand dollars for the full cotton swatch library! There are a few different format options such as the passport guide or chip set. To avoid confusion here you should be using a guide labeled ‘Pantone Fashion, Home + Interiors’ and there are two options you can choose from to suit your needs and budget Ĭotton Swatch Books (TCX): These are actual cotton swatches dyed to each individual colour. ![]() There are actually several types of Pantone Colour guides available as Pantone caters to many different industries and materials such as packaging and printed materials, product design and plastics, digital design for web and app design, fashion and home for fabrics and print design. So instead of saying, ‘let’s make this a light peachy creamy colour’- which is of course going to be interpreted differently by each individual- you can actually make reference to a Pantone Colour Code like, ‘Peach Fuzz 13-1023 TPX’. Thanks to the Pantone Colour Matching system developed in 1950, your designers, manufacturers and other suppliers in different locations can all be across your specific colour needs. ![]() This all starts with using Pantone Colour Guide! This tool is essential for any fashion biz and in this post I’m going to take you through what you need to know about using Pantones when developing your prints and collection. How to check colours On your printed samples & SwatchesĬolour is hands down the funnest part when planning out your collection! However there are some technical things to consider in order to get those colours right from development through to production. How to use your guide for print design & with manufacturers ![]()
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