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

Have you ever wondered how to use those Pantone Formula Guides and Color Bridges?
In this video, we are unboxing a HUGE collection of guides. I’ll show you each one and tell you when, and how to use them.

I’m sure all Graphic Designers have come across Pantone Guides. Whether you are a print designer, packaging designer, label designer, branding designer, or logo designer, you need these guides to help you with perfect color and design. You can use Pantone Books to determine the colors you want to use and how to put those colors in your design file so they turn out perfect in print. Sure it's great to check out the Pantone Color of the year each year, but let's learn how to take it to the next step and put these Pantone swatches to work for you.

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[PrintDesignAcademy]

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

[Don_Ponchito]

6:49 I am very happy that you smelled the guide, it means that I am not the only one with that impulse XD

[hannahlissette]

Love your podcast and videos. Thanks for sharing!

[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. ❤

[rafaels]

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

[khj]

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!

[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!

[ralphcarratura]

So I could use the solid guide now, but I think the bridge would be helpful at times. Being this is the case, could I simply get the bridge? Is it as good as the solid guide, just more useful? Or does the solid have its advantages. Thanks so much

[rociocarrionrabanal]

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?

[ekorrladerbollar]

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

[patrickkhawam]

Hey, what’s your best tip to convert cmyk to pantone color. Suppose we have a cmyk color on illustrator and we need to march the closest PMS

[GilangD]

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

[Garo.fashion]

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

[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

[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.