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This article is from May 17, 2011, and is no longer current.

New Pantone Colors Signal a Brighter Outlook

Pantone has taken the wraps off of a nylon brights collection for Pantone Fashion + Home. The $99.95 collection includes 21 fluorescent shades in a nylon material:

The new nylon brights collection is accounted for in an update to Pantone’s Color Manager, which runs on Mac OS X 10.5 and higher, and on Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7.
Do you think your print designs will be affected by this addition to another segment of the Pantone customer base? If you will use vivid shades like the ones shown above, what kind of projects are good candidates for bright colors like these?

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