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DC Comics 1982 Color Palette

In 1982, DC Comics produced a palette of their primary colors used in their publications. The image/scan taken from this publication has been making the rounds for a number of years now and I thought I would provide the colors using the current PANTONE® Color Bridge standards for digital and...
Pantone Color of the Year 2023

PANTONE® Fashion Color Trend Report

From the PANTONE website: "The colors featured in the semiannual PANTONE Fashion Color Trend Report are selected from the PANTONE FASHION, HOME + INTERIORS Color System, the most widely used and recognized color standards system for fashion, textile, home and interior design. Each season, the Pantone Color Institute issues the...
Pantone Color of the Year - 2026

PANTONE’s Color of the Year: 2000 through present

Each year since 2000, Pantone has chosen a color from their Fashion + Home (formerly known as the PANTONE Textile Color System) collection to represent a "Color of the Year" that is derived from fashion and culture trends.  From Wikipedia: "Annually Pantone declares a particular color "Color of the Year". Twice a...
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Tiny PMS Match – Color Palettes

A while back, I discovered the brilliant blog run by Inka Mathew of Green Ink Studio - Tiny PMS Match. If you haven't checked out her blog before, it's an extremely creative idea where she takes small, everyday items, matches them against corresponding Pantone swatch chips, and photographs them. Looking at the...