PANTONE

FNDT-165 Ada Ng
 What is Pantone?

• Pantone is a system for matching colours

• Its system is globally used for colour

matching and identification
 How did it originate?

 Pantone was founded in 1962 by Lawrence

Herbert

 It was originally a colour cards manufacturing

company that catered to cosmetic companies

 Pantone created the first colour matching

system, the Pantone Matching System (PMS) in
1963 to revolutionize and solve the complicated
colour matching in the printing industry
• The Pantone Matching System is useful because it is the standardized
colour matching system that is widely used

• Their system helps communicate precise colour requirements that are

universal for designers, producers, and manufacturers

• It became a tool that made consistent and accurate colours that could be
distinguished all around the world

Why is it useful?
 How is it useful?

• They have two colour systems, Pantone Matching System (PMS) and
Fashion, Home, Interior (FHI) system

• Each system has different uses:

PMS colours are used to reference ink-printed projects
FHI colours are used for non-ink-printed types of products

• The two systems are in place to ensure that the colours are producible
based on the material used

• The colours produced and distributed would be guaranteed to match

across various regions
The End
Citations

https://www.pantone.com/about-pantone

https://www.pantone.com/color-systems/
pantone-color-systems-explained