Pantone's Color of the Year for 2011 is 18-2120 Honeysuckle, described as a bold color for challenging times. The document promotes Pantone's design tools and techniques to help designers confidently give their inspirations shape, color, and manage color throughout production workflows. It highlights new products like the Color Bridge, Premium Metallics colors, Pastels & Neons colors, and the ColorMunki Design color capture and control system.

1. BE BOLD.
Graphic Design Tools
Spring 2011

2. Be bold.
The PANTONE Color of the Year for 2011 is 18-2120
Honeysuckle, a bold color for challenging times.
What’s Hot from Pantone
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Today’s designers and color professionals work in a world that’s tougher, The world is your palette. Capture colors with confidence from virtually
leaner and more competitive than ever. To be successful today you need any surface and import them directly into your designs. See page 11.
unshakable confidence in your ideas and the unwavering conviction to
see them through to realization. NEW PLUS SERIES COLOR BRIDGE
The ultimate tools for multimedia color specification. Specify consistent
You need attitude. color across print, web and video with spot, RGB, CMYK and HTML
information. See page 8.
Pantone can help. We’ve got powerful design tools and techniques to let
you boldly harness your inspirations, to confidently give them shape and NEW PLUS SERIES PREMIUM METALLICS
color, and decisively manage color throughout the production workflow. 300 shimmering, brilliant new shades. Premium Metallics colors can be
coated without loss in luster and have a longer life after printing without
Learn more about Honeysuckle and download free color harmony tarnishing or blemishing. See page 7.
palettes for your design software at pantone.com/coy2011
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3. Be exotic. LEAVE ROUTINE BEHIND. Let the expansive color range
and innovative design tools of the PANTONE PLUS SERIES take
you far away from the mundane into new realms of creativity.
The new PLUS SERIES library explodes with 566 new colors, including
new NEONS and PREMIUM METALLICS – two of the hottest color
trends in design today. We also included features that will free your
creative spirit, like chromatic arrangement, a lighting conditions indicator,
digital color correction targets and design software upgrades – all
included FREE with your purchase.
We kept everything you love about the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM®
– all the colors and features you know – and simply added more of
the things you want.
Flamingo SOLID CHIPS
PANTONE 18-2120 Honeysuckle, our 2011 Color of the Year, takes the lead in this bold, energetic 1,341 solid color choices in a convenient chip format that attach to artwork,
palette. Colors evoke plumage and lush tropical landscapes. Lavender and Olive can be used as providing a physical standard to accompany your digital files for easy, consistent color
communication. Set of two books, coated and uncoated stock. pantone.com/chips
neutrals in such a high-contrast, high-intensity palette. Saturated Ink Blue adds depth.
SOLID CHIPS Coated & Uncoated Set GP1303 $259.
Replacement pages available at pantone.com/replace
FORMULA GUIDES
The must-have guides for graphic designers, pre-press professionals and printers.
1,341 solid color choices in a new chromatic arrangement. Includes ink formulations,
PANTONE® PANTONE® PANTONE® PANTONE® PANTONE® color locator index, lighting conditions indicator and design software. Set of two
205 C 2705 C 7496 C 60-1-6 C 382 C guides, coated and uncoated. pantone.com/formulaguides
FORMULA GUIDE Solid Coated & Solid Uncoated Set GP1301 $109.
Colors simulated using Color Bridge and GoeBridge™ values.
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4. Be hot. (Or cool.)
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PREMIUM METALLICS
Create brilliant designs with this new line of PREMIUM METALLICS. 300 shimmering,
chromatically arranged PREMIUM METALLICS that can be coated without loss in
luster and have a longer life after printing without tarnishing or blemishing. Includes ink
mixing formulas, a lighting conditions indicator and design software. On coated stock.
pantone.com/premiummetallics
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PREMIUM METALLICS Coated GG1305 $79.
PREMIUM METALLICS CHIPS
All 300 new PREMIUM METALLICS in a convenient chip format that can be attached
to artwork with your digital files for easy and consistent color communication.
pantone.com/premiumchips
PREMIUM METALLICS CHIPS Coated GB1305 $175.
LET YOUR PASSIONS SHINE. Brilliant PLUS SERIES neons Replacement pages available at pantone.com/replace
and molten metallics erupt from your designs. (Too hot? Control the
blaze with cooling pastels.)
Also available:
PASTELS & NEONS METALLIC FORMULA GUIDE
154 soothing pastels and 56 hot neons, arranged chromatically. Compatible with today’s Add impact and elegance with our classic collection of metallic colors. 301
digital workflows. Includes ink mixing formulas, lighting conditions indicator and design software. gleaming hues. Additional page demonstrates the effects of a gloss aqueous coating.
Coated and uncoated stocks together in one convenient fan guide. pantone.com/pastelsneons Ink mixing formulations are provided. On coated stock only. pantone.com/metallics
PASTELS & NEONS Coated & Uncoated GG1304 $79. METALLIC FORMULA GUIDE coated GG1207 $69.
PASTELS & NEONS CHIPS METALLIC CHIPS
Pastels and neons in a convenient chip format that can be attached to artwork with your Metallic colors on chips that attach to artwork to provide a physical standard with your
digital files for easy and consistent color communication. pantone.com/pnchips digital files. Coated stock only. pantone.com/metallicchips
PASTELS & NEONS CHIPS Coated & Uncoated GB1304 $175. METALLIC CHIPS coated GB1204 $169.
Replacement pages available at pantone.com/replace Replacement pages available at pantone.com/replace
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5. Be magical. READ COLOR FROM THE PALM OF YOUR HAND.
Levitate across color systems. Then disappear in a flash.
PANTONE ®
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Take PANTONE Colors with you wherever you go. Access a variety of PANTONE
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and iPad mobile digital devices. Requires iPhone OS 3.1.2 through iOS 4.
pantone.com/iphone
myPANTONE for iOS $9.99
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myPANTONE X-Ref for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad
Need to find a match among all the different PANTONE Color libraries? The
myPANTONE X-Ref App will find the closest color for you in the other PANTONE Systems.
Also finds PANTONE Color matches for RGB, Hexadecimal (HTML) and CMYK
values. Compatible with the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad mobile digital devices.
PANTONE PANTONE Requires iPhone OS 3.1.2 through iOS 4. pantone.com/xref
101 C 101 CP myPANTONE X-Ref for iOS $1.99
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chimera PANTONE Flash Drive
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6. Be powerful.
ColorMunki™ Design tycoon
Swing from inspiration to production in full control of your color. This palm-sized pantone.com/tycoon
powerhouse is a complete color capture and control system. Sample colors from any
surface and create custom palettes. Preview palettes for CMYK or spot color printing,
add colors from your OS picker, view color data in L*a*b*, CMYK and sRGB, and
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ColorMunki Design MEU115-G $499.
Includes FREE GoeGuide™, a $79 value!
DEMAND ACCURACY. COMMAND FIDELITY.
Control color at every step of your workflow.
CAPSURE™
Sample colors wherever they inspire you and bring them into your designs. Full-featured
CAPSURE reads color from a wide range of surfaces, materials and fabrics – including
multi-colored patterns – then searches every PANTONE Color library for a match. Zoom
in to manually select specific areas or let CAPSURE automatically identify dominant
shades from detailed and multicolored samples. Stores up to 100 measurements – and
a built-in microphone can even record your voice notes on each color! Lightweight and
portable. Includes rechargeable battery. pantone.com/capsure
CAPSURE RM200-PT01 $649.
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Experience true color at a true value The ultimate, fully-featured ICC profiling Color Cue®2.1
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7. PUSH THE LIMITS. Expand into new dimensions of colors, mediums and formats.
Be cosmic.
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Five-book set contains 735 transparent and 1,005 opaque removable plastic chips. and control of color in plastics throughout
Individual color chips display three different levels of transparency or opacity. All the color development process. Large
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Three-binder set of 1,005 colors. pantone.com/opaque standard combination.
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PLASTICS transparent selector Plastic Standard Chips $16. each
Two-binder set of 735 colors. pantone.com/transparent
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PLASTICS selector chips Individual replacement chips. $2.95 each
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