CMYK vs Pantone vs RGB - What's the difference? Why does it matter? When to use each?

[@tubebuz]

Great explanation to a topic that seems to confuse a lot of people - even some who has been in the business for a while.

[@talnewfield9635]

Awesome video. I'm just starting out in the world of graphic design and this video was super helpful!

[@ViviNorthbell]

well, you forgot to mention, that even if we download the pdf file and print it on a home printer it won't really represent the colors right. The outcome very much varies depending on the matierial printed on. There is a huge amount of different paper in all kinds of thickness, coated etc.

[@VolumetricTerrain-hz7civ]

Thank you for the informative video! Good job! 🙂 I have experimented with primary colors, on MS Paint, and discovered a color model that is both additive and subtractive. The color model can be used for both screen and printer, in other words. The following colors are: Red, Yellow, Cyan, and Blue (abbreviated as RYCB).

[@LudovicaQuaranta]

Thank you very much for the booklet to download, I have the color bridge palette but is good to narrow down the best options to choose.

[@LudovicaQuaranta]

the CMYK values in your guide are optimised, do you mean that they are an improved variant of the CMYK values provided by pantone bridge? As I see that the values you provide don't match the ones in the pantone guide. Also I just realised that between coated and uncoated the values change as well. Are your CMYK values suitable for both? Thank you in advances for clarifying this :)

[@punitgupta8986]

Amazing explanation. Really helpful to understand the whole colouring system. Thanks for this one 🎉

[@feyzaarslan6434]

thank you!! this really helped me with my graphic design class project!

[@FlutterCreativeStudioandSounds]

Great info, very well explained! Good refresher of the basics!

[@gomatidas8421]

Awesome explanation, thanks for showing colour pallets.

[@jont1057]

Awesome video! Really helps with the nuance of CMYK

[@DaneA-x3m]

great video - very informative - thank you for the booklet it is very useful and of high quality. Thanks for explaining cmyk in detail.

[@Da_ns]

Thank you!!! This helped a lot

[@squinonex]

Thanks for the video! This was super helpful :)

[@g_o_d_esigns]

Thank you for the free tool! And especially the lesson! Cheers!

[@Ggdivhjkjl]

Can the key's colour be changed?

[@MOHAMEDHASSAN-fk9jv]

👍. Thanks for the CMYK colour code file.

[@highflyinmayan5051]

Cheers mate!

[@ferretyluv]

What about Avery? They have their own color system. What’s the difference between Avery and Pantone?

[@sophiastarotmore2844]

That was very helpful, thank you!

[@westfield90]

Excellent video

[@sheep9944]

very cool! Thank you!!!

[@jsa-z1722]

👏👏👏

[@BarKeegan]

Just wondering with Pantone leaving Adobe, could someone make a new Spot colour in one of their design packages for use on a single lithographic plate, and just tell a printer which Pantone you want printed on that plate without having the available Pantone swatches digitally?

[@Printpeppermint]

Yes, the PMS colors are mixed by hand based on the Guidebook proportions from Pantone. The swatches inside design software are a nice convenience but are not necessary.

[@BarKeegan]

@@Printpeppermint Ah, thanks for clarifying that, it felt like there was a lot of drama over this change, but didn’t really seem warranted to me...

[@elloh77]

I wouldn't spec a pantone color if the client isn't paying for spot color in the job (assuming print method supports it at all). Just because a designer spec's a pantone doesn't mean they're going to get a faithful reproduction of it at print time, especially in the case of a digitally printed product. CMYK and converting / choosing it over RGB: the designer should be asking the print provider what they want in production files. Most modern RIPs will handle the conversion from RGB spaces to process color output just fine, and they'll do a better job of it than creative desktop software will. Similarly for pantone colors, they'll convert to the closest in gamut color without issue. It just may not be as bright and nice as the designer and client expect.

[@madirapunzel8799]

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[@Printpeppermint]

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[@lasarith2]

RGB 16.7 million colours CMYK 16,000 colours, Pantone 1200-1600 ish.

[@Printpeppermint]

Yeah but you can't print RGB or at least not in a way that expresses all those colors. And most of those in-between color differences are not perceivable by the human eye. So I'd say the 1200 palette is more than enough to work with - for print anyways.

[@eleanornelson5810]

HEX is RGB

[@lukamarkovych3859]

thank you, Obi Wan

[@Printpeppermint]

Not quite but thank you :)