Pantone Formula Guides - WHEN and HOW to use them - Huge Collection Unboxed

[@PrintDesignAcademy]

Thanks for watching! Be honest...If you have some Pantone Guides, how old are they?

[@avivxtodah]

Papers made of trees that are usually acidic yellow overtime but ones that are 100% cotton don't but with printing companies, I think they use paper made of trees. Artist here. That's how I know and just wanted to share with y'all. ❤

[@PrintDesignAcademy]

Thanks for your comment. Acid-Free Archival papers do not yellow over time. Each paper manufacturer will usually have an Archival option. Cotton papers fall into that archival category and won't yellow. Most printers will use whatever paper you spec or tell them to use. Dealers choice!

[@hannahlissette8163]

Love your podcast and videos. Thanks for sharing!

[@PrintDesignAcademy]

Thanks so much for the kind words! Glad you enjoy them and get value from them.

[@dancingbetweenus]

Thank you! This is so helpful

[@PrintDesignAcademy]

I'm so glad!

[@rafaels3334]

I refuse to believe that 95% of freelancers will have the money to buy a full PANTONE library. 😂

[@PrintDesignAcademy]

totally!! Guy can dream right?

[@khj5582]

Can you please make a video where you flip through each page of your Pantone guides, shot from overhead in neutral lighting, with the codes clearly visible, so the viewers can use it as a reference? It will be a more accurate and realistic digital representation of pantone colors than the swatches in the Illustrator pantone libraries. Thanks!

[@PrintDesignAcademy]

I see what you are saying. We'll look into doing something like this in the near future. A closeup walk through. I don't know that I would have a video slowly going over each page, but showing some colors would be good.

[@ekorrladerbollar8247]

So, how do you create metallic looks with Pantones and BOPP/Metalized paper?

[@PrintDesignAcademy]

Pantone has a collection of metallics that you can use if you need to create metallic on a flat non-metallic substrate. If you're working with a silver metallic BOPP or paper, all you need is to print the color straight onto it. When you put any color ink on top of silver it will become metallic. A great showcase of this is on beer labels. Check these out for an example: kzbin.infoj2B5Vs9JuVI?si=OXZepI8VUXCPKOMo kzbin.info3P1eImN2Q2A?si=9YXQlaFmjXltap2n kzbin.info/www/bejne/mXi5kJ5jd9mam5I

[@jim.....]

Just to weigh in on recommendations, rather than a formula guide (which is used for printers for mixing spot colours) a designer is probably better off with the colour bridge guide, which shows both spot and cmyk processes on the same swatch (and codes for their screen analogs). Thanks for the run down!

[@PrintDesignAcademy]

Thanks for your comment and we 100% agree. Updated video in the works. Thanks for checking out our channel!

[@k-12clothing23]

Was that Larry June at the beginning?

[@rociocarrionrabanal1121]

Silly question but i am so ignorant in this topic so maybe you can help me to understand. I got color sheets and they dont say pantone, it has a code in the side that says THD-D19, is this still pantone? or it is another color system?

[@PrintDesignAcademy]

Thanks for your question. Without seeing it in person its tough to say. Pantone is all about their brand. So if it doesn't have Pantone on it, its unlikely to be Pantone. If you are designing something for print or packaging, I recommend going straight to Pantone and ordering their color sheets or their bridge guides. That way you can ensure accuracy.

[@Liliana77]

Good job dad

[@GilangD21]

do you even need to use pantone at all if your brand already made in cmyk range?

[@PrintDesignAcademy]

Nope. If the colors look good in CMYK, keep them there!

[@michaelangeloguillermo4859]

more videos please

[@PrintDesignAcademy]

You bet! Actively working on a pile of them! Thanks for checking out the channel.

[@PrintDesignAcademy]

You might also find our Free Print Ready Files Checklist to be a really useful tool. Grab that here www.printdesignacademy.com/PrintReadyFiles

[@Garo.fashion]

How and where can I find the rgb cmyk etc equivalent of a color picked from a solid color formula guide.

[@PrintDesignAcademy]

Thanks for your comment! The best place would be with the Pantone Color Bridge as that has all that info. Or, sign up for Pantone Connect and that will give you instant access to all that info too!

[@Garo.fashion]

@@PrintDesignAcademy so that means, you can combine formula guide and pantone connect and make it work instead of a color bridge. or is it good to have a cmyk color guide + pantone connect because rgb can closely replicate the cmyk color you first picked. It will not end up dull like when you convert rgb to cmyk. what are your thoughts.

[@QQQTQ]

Hello my friend Is it possible to make a video explaining the following unpopular spot colors in terms of the possibility of using them in graphic design and the possibility of producing them through offset printing or not? : ***SPOT ((Focoltone)) Colors ***SPOT ((ANPA)) COLORs ***SPOT ((DIC)) COLORs ***SPOT ((GCMI)) COLORs ***SPOT ((SPECTRAMASTER)) COLORs ***SPOT ((HKS)) COLORs: -HKSK -HKSN -HKS Z -HKS E -HKS COLORs What is the difference between them and colors Process ((HKS)) colours ***SPOT ((TOYO)) COLOR FINDER ***SPOT ((Roland)) Colors: -Roland Color System Library -Roland Metallic Color System Library -Roland VersaWorks ***SPOT ((RAL)) COLORs ***SPOT ((TRUMATCH)) COLORs Of course, I did not ask you about Pantone's macular colors, because you have explained them to us in a sufficient, complete and satisfactory manner. Are spot colors classified within the category of transparent colors or within the category of solid colors? What is the difference between colors SPOT PANTONE COLORS And colors Process PANTONE colours? Thank you very much. Good luck

[@rafaels3334]

Spot colour is the colour that it is usually denoted as a single pass colour (aka in this spot print [some expensive ink code here]) - it's not really meant to be mixed in like process colours (RGB and CMYK). You have to buy a whole tub od specific shade to prinnt with. Spot is often used to denote crop marks, seam lines or any other extra "out of print gamut/do not print" helpers as well as for ususal print using a known colour library. You can use spot as a 5th or 6th colour pass in litho but it's not uncommon to print only using spot without CMYK in only like 3 passes(for example black + main + accent - often pharmaceutical and beauty industry). The difference between spot PANTONE and process PANTONE is that the second one is achievable with CMYK - if you follow PANTONE process CMYK formula you SHOULD arrive at specific pantone - which is just a regular CMYK colour that PANTONE gave a name and thus is easier to cumminicate using a shared library - in this case PANTONE one. the spots libraries you mention are used for various things - for example: ANPA = American Newspaper Publishers Association TOYO = japanese spot system DIC = Munsell based spot system from japan RAL = coating and enamel pigments every library is for something different and I would recommend searching to get the full answer but now at least you know that most of tanks and barriers are going to have RAL on them. 😉

[@Psilobite]

So you ordered a $1,037.00 Portable Guide Studio, and Pantone instead shipped you a $2,101.00 Reference Library. And you just kept it instead of reporting the error to Pantone? I mean.... wow.

[@PrintDesignAcademy]

Not exactly. I called my contact and was like…ummmm….this isn’t exactly what we ordered. Turns out it was upgraded as a surprise by Pantone for the work we had ongoing with them. Pretty rad set up!

[@Psilobite]

@@PrintDesignAcademy That's a $1,000.00 upgrade, very nice! I should not have jumped to the conclusion that you "kept" it without asking, I apologize for that. It would be nice if they also offered the FHI bundle with the corresponding binders.