Pantone, Inc., the leading provider of professional color standards for the graphic communications industry worldwide, today announced the newly redesigned PANTONE tints guide. Used by graphic designers, prepress professionals and printers, PANTONE tints displays tints of over 1,114 solid PANTONE Colors. Re-engineered for greater utility, the guide is now offered as a four-volume fan guide set, on coated and uncoated stock, featuring larger color blocks and tint effects that bleed off the page for press check ease.
Tints are a creative and economical way to add variety and interesting design effects to solid color printing. Graphic designers and prepress professionals use PANTONE tints to accurately predict the effects that can be created with various screen tints of solid PANTONE Colors, including difficult to visualize halftones. PANTONE tints also make it easy to determine the legibility of reverse type and color or black surprinting. Tints can be applied using today’s popular design software, such as Adobe® Photoshop® and QuarkXPress™.
“The PANTONE tints guide is an important visual reference for predicting what will happen in print. The new fan deck format provides more color area and eliminates the guesswork in the selection of legible tints and solid color effects,” said Joanna Sluja, marketing product manager at Pantone. “The bleeding edges will be especially valuable to printers and creative pros when comparing colors and conducting color checks on press. The guide eliminates the time-consuming workarounds printers were forced to endure to ensure they had a good color match.”
PANTONE tints
PANTONE tints accurately predicts the effects that can be created with various screen tints of solid PANTONE Colors. The new fan deck format features tints of two solid PANTONE Colors per page and depicts color printed as thin and thick rules and bold and light typefaces, as well as halftone examples and black, color and reverse type effects on every tint. The redesigned 2005 edition of the guide is printed on brighter, whiter paper to reflect the most commonly specified paper used by designers today. The stock is also more durable, which protects the guide when used in the field to accompany professionals to client presentations or on press runs.
The new color guides are produced on the company’s new customized KBA printing press, which has been precision-engineered for improved color consistency. The press uses state-of-the-art printing technology with integrated color measurement controls to reproduce colors with even greater consistency and tighter tolerances. This new technology greatly improves this critical process.
Pricing and Availability
PANTONE tints will be available beginning May 27, 2005, for a suggested retail price of $249 for the four-book set. The set includes a two-volume coated set of 559 color pages and a two-volume uncoated set of 559 color pages. The guide can be pre-ordered at www.pantone.com.
About Pantone, Inc.
Pantone, Inc., developer of the globally accepted PANTONE Color Systems, is the leading source of traditional and electronic products for the selection and accurate communication of color. With over 40 years of experience, Pantone is recognized as the worldwide market leader in color communication and color technology for the graphic design, printing, publishing, textile and plastics industries. More information is available at www.pantone.com.
This article was last modified on January 3, 2023
This article was first published on March 3, 2005
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