How to Convert CMYK to Pantone

Coated or Uncoated

Scenario: You’ve sent a file to the printer noting a PMS color or CMYK conversion match for corporate stationery. When the proof comes back, the color is all wrong, but the printer assures you the PMS color is as requested. Indeed, they are correct. What went wrong? Most of you already know the answer to this question, but I’ll answer it for those few that may not. PMS colors vary based on the printing surface. And, depending on the color, a sharp visual distinction is noticeable. The Pantone Plus Series Formula Guide Solid Coated & Uncoated is a first step to Pantone CMYK conversion, providing a complete reference guide with 1,761 Pantone solid color choices, including 84 new colors of the Pantone Matching System. The guide is arranged chromatically, showing the results of coated and uncoated stocks for each color as well as a lighting indicator tool to insure lighting conditions are suitable for color selection and matching.
As a bonus, when you purchase the Pantone Plus Series Formula Guide, you will receive the Pantone Color Manager Software to download for free upon registration.

he Essential Color Bridge

The go-to tool for professional designers when it comes to color matching is the Pantone Plus Series Essentials with Formula Guide and Color Bridge Supplements. What sets it apart are Color Bridge Guides that include side-by-side comparisons of a Pantone color its CMYK conversion with the CMYK values needed to achieve the similar Pantone color. The Color Bridge Guides also provide sRGB and HTML values for converting Pantone colors.

This six guide set includes the Pantone Plus Series Solid and Process Color Guides and three new color supplements; the Solid Color Formula Guides (coated and uncoated), which offer accurate solid color specifying and matching; and the Color Bridge Guides (coated and uncoated).

This bundle is our most popular. It features 1,761 Pantone solid color choices and 2,868 CMYK color choices with screen tint percentages.

Design Firm Essentials

The Pantone Plus Series Reference Library with Formula Guide, Color Bridge & Chips Supplements is the complete source for color choices for design firms, corporate communications’ design departments and agencies. This 14-piece set includes the Plus Series Solid Color Formula Guides (coated and uncoated), the Formula Guide Supplement (coated and uncoated), and the Color Bridge Guides (coated and uncoated).

Additionally, the Pantone Plus Series Reference Library also includes the new Premium Metallics Guide with 300 new colors; the Pastels & Neons Guide with 154 pastel and 56 neon colors and the Metallic Formula Guide, which includes 301 metallic colors.

A must-have for design firms! Also included are five Chip guides – Solid Chips and the Solid Chips Supplement (coated and uncoated), Pastels & Neons Chips (coated and uncoated), Metallic and Premium Metallic Chips, easy to tear out and attach to artwork for accurate color matching.

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