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CommentAuthorSpode
- CommentTimeFeb 19th 2008
After sleeping on the new thinkbikes.com colours, I decided I was happy with them. The last task was to find the Pantone equivalents of my chosen colours, to make t-shirt printing that little bit easier. Although a lot of printers now use digital printing methods - any screen printing place will most likely abide to Pantone colours.
Photoshop has a great facility for matching up colours to their Pantone equivalents, but for this they pay a license fee.
Wikipedia
Pantone asserts that their list of color numbers and values is the intellectual property of Pantone and free use of the list is not allowed. This is frequently held as a reason why Pantone colors cannot be supported in Open Source software such as GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) and are not often found in low-cost software.
Knowing this, I had to find an alternative solution. Most of what Google turned up was converting from Pantone to RGB, not the other way around, but I eventually found this site which converts from both RGB as well as hexadecimal HTML format to the Pantone equivalent. Thankfully, the colours I found had very close Pantone equivalents.
If anyone is interested in seeing my 2008 season bikes, you can find a gallery here.
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CommentAuthorcrazy pete
- CommentTimeFeb 21st 2008 edited
So that was you I saw by HSBC a few weeks back. I was gonna run over and say hi but it was dark and I thought I was mistaken.
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CommentAuthorSpode
- CommentTimeFeb 21st 2008
You know it! Felt nostalgic, what can I say
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- CommentAuthorJonClarke
- CommentTimeFeb 21st 2008
In Tenterden without calling me? Criminal.
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CommentAuthorSpode
- CommentTimeFeb 22nd 2008
I was tempted. But the computer said no.
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- CommentAuthorMike
- CommentTimeFeb 28th 2008
I use Pantone Tria Markers for all my product design work - their colours really are the best.
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