Bah; if you could equate pantone inks to hex triplets so easily there would be no need for pantone swatches, proof prints, etc. Proper color management is not so easy. You can't just go on a reference like this to be right.Any designer actually needing to match pantone inks for Web, CD, TV, DVD, (or any other RGB medium) will most likely have Photoshop and proper color profiles necessary to accurately convert their Pantone ink to an RGB value (which will be different depending on the ink type and output device's color gamut). If you don't know more about press color than this, you shouldn't even be worrying about Pantone.I would imagine that whoever put this together just made a new (probably Adobe sRGB profile) RGB document in Photoshop, drew on it with the uncoated Pantone inks then used the dropper tool to get a hex triplet.Even Paint Shop Pro does a better job at Pantone conversions than this!
@felchdonkey: I'm a professional designer, have Photoshop and Pantone books, and calibrated monitors... and you're right... i have no idea who would use this other than designers... i would guess that out of the digg population perhaps 5% are designers at a professional level???
felchdonkeyDec 21, 2005
Or I could just use Photoshop and check the official Pantone through the color pallette...
gorkishDec 21, 2005
Bah; if you could equate pantone inks to hex triplets so easily there would be no need for pantone swatches, proof prints, etc. Proper color management is not so easy. You can't just go on a reference like this to be right.Any designer actually needing to match pantone inks for Web, CD, TV, DVD, (or any other RGB medium) will most likely have Photoshop and proper color profiles necessary to accurately convert their Pantone ink to an RGB value (which will be different depending on the ink type and output device's color gamut). If you don't know more about press color than this, you shouldn't even be worrying about Pantone.I would imagine that whoever put this together just made a new (probably Adobe sRGB profile) RGB document in Photoshop, drew on it with the uncoated Pantone inks then used the dropper tool to get a hex triplet.Even Paint Shop Pro does a better job at Pantone conversions than this!
gneisbaardDec 21, 2005
My hovercraft is full of eels!!
danlinDec 21, 2005
not bad in a pinch when you are on someone else's machine and needed to look up a color.
fudgebrownDec 21, 2005
<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/design/Convert_Pantone_Colors_to_RGB_and_Hex_HTML_for_Web_Use">http://digg.com/design/Convert_Pantone_Colors_to_RGB_and_Hex_HTML_for_Web_Use</a>
frankencDec 21, 2005
No good.
fudgebrownDec 21, 2005
@felchdonkey: I'm a professional designer, have Photoshop and Pantone books, and calibrated monitors... and you're right... i have no idea who would use this other than designers... i would guess that out of the digg population perhaps 5% are designers at a professional level???
danioDec 22, 2005
well, it is fun scrolling up and down
ozonew4mSep 5, 2008
Pantone is one of the world leaders in color authority... If you use color in any format, chances are it is linked to pantone in some shape or form... check this out<a class="user" href="http://www.color-chart.org/pantone-charts.php">http://www.color-chart.org/pantone-charts.php</a>