Pantone

This is a standardized colour matching system. It is like the book of colours, where every kind of colour is in it and is also numbered to be identified.

Pantone Palette

Thanks to it a colour can be chosen and will be used for both designing and printing. After the colour is chosen by the client and the designer, the artwork will be designed and after everything will be ready it will be ready for printing, so the designer will give the printing company the reference number of that specific colour so it will match the exact colour that was chosen in the beginning.

There are more than one type of pantone palettes, such as;

Process Palette done by CMYK printing.

Textile Palette for Fashion and Home colours.

Plastics Palette used by manufacturers for moulded and fabricated plastics.

But the most common palette used by designers and the one mentioned before is the Solid Palette.

This palette will section every colour by a three or four digit numbers, followed by a C (Coated Paper), U (Uncoated Paper) or M (Matte Paper). Example: Pantone 286C, and that will result in the colour blue, shown below.

Reference:

http://www.colorguides.net/pantone.html