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Pantone Colour of the Year 2018

04/05/2018

Inventive and imaginative, Pantone 18-3838 Ultra Violet lights the way to what is yet to come. Pantone's Colour of the Year for 2018 is a dramatically provocative and thoughtful purpl..

Pantone Skin Tones

10/10/2017

For use in any design market where skin colours are relevant and specially formulated to be the closest physical representations of human skin colours, Pantone Skin Tones are a comprehensive reference..

Pantone Viewpoint Colour Issue 02 Sanctuary

18/09/2017

Pantone Viewpoint Colour Issue 02, Sanctuary. Inspirational and informative, Pantone Viewpoint Colour is a seasonal trend book devoted to colour across design. Each issue includes visual imagery, m..

RAL, the language of colour.

15/09/2017

RAL is the global language of colour and used by professionals in the construction industry, manufacturing, architecture and interior design. The full RAL colour palette comprises a total of 2,328 sha..

Pantone's Viewpoint Colour

28/08/2017

Inspirational and informative, Pantone's Viewpoint Colour is a seasonal trend book dedicated to colour. Each issue includes visual imagery, material direction and trend forecasts displayed in Pant..

Prince honoured with a Pantone custom colour

21/08/2017

The Pantone Colour Institute has announced the creation of a Pantone custom colour to represent and honour the international artist, musician and icon, Prince. Prince’s association with the c..

Munsell Soil Colour Charts Latest Revision

17/08/2017

Munsell Soil Colour Charts are an affordable way to evaluate the type of soil that is present within a given area and allows users to, quickly and easily, make soil colour evaluations in the most test..

RAL Colours and Finest Interior Award announce Brand Partnership

17/07/2017

As a result of RAL Colours brand partnership with the Finest Interior Award 2017, RAL are honouring people in the fields of architecture, interior design and interior furnishings for holistic individu..

Pantone Colour of the Year

11/07/2017

At the turn of the new millennium Pantone announced it's inaugural Colour of the Year. Since then, every new year has seen Pantone select a colour that best captures the global mood of the..

Pantone Universe Drinking Bottles

06/06/2017

With a unique combination of Steel and Style, the practical Pantone Drinking Bottle will make a great gift for your creative staff or friends. These official Pantone Universe Drinking Bottles are a..

Pantone Colour Name Changes

02/05/2017

Over the last few years, some Pantone colours from the Pantone Fashion Home + Interiors range have changed their descriptive name. Whilst the colour's unique Pantone numbers has not changed, th..

Newton’s Colour Wheel

20/04/2017

Sir Isaac Newton is better known for the study of Gravity and Calculus, but Newton’s Colour Wheel is one of the major reasons we now understand why and how colour works. Newton’s work w..

Colours in the Pantone Starter Guide

02/03/2017

List of Pantone colours in the Pantone Starter Guide. The Pantone Starter Guide contains 543 colours selections from all Pantone colour libraries, all of which are mixed from a set of 14 Pantone Ba..

Five Pantone Facts for Graphic Designers

01/03/2017

Our top five Pantone facts that will help you to choose the Pantone Guide that's right for your project, and may even save you money! Pantone graphics guides, like the Pantone Formula Guide ..

Save on all Pantone Colour Journals

08/01/2017

Save 20% on all Pantone Children's and Professional Colour Journals this January with Coupon Code: PANJOUR Pantone Journals are a range of Pantone inspired books and publications to connect chi..

Pantone Colour of the Year 2017

05/01/2017

Greenery, Pantone's Colour of the Year 2017, bursts forth to provide us with the reassurance we yearn for amid a tumultuous social and political environment, satisfying our growing desire to rejuv..

Copic Markers for Christmas delivery

06/12/2016

Copic Markers are the finest marker system available for designers, artists and Manga illustrators. Manufactured to exacting standards by the Too Corporation in Japan, the original Copic Marker ran..

Pantone Formula Guide

05/12/2016

The Pantone Formula Guide is used for selecting, specifying and matching solid Pantone colours and feature an impressive 1,867 colours. The Guide comes in two formats, printed on coated or uncoated st..

Ever heard of The Pantone Universe?

02/12/2016

Well, if your interested in Colour you will know that Pantone is one of the world's leading standards for colour communication. But did you know that, via the Pantone Universe licensing program, P..

Albert Munsell and his Theory of Colour

10/11/2016

Even in today's visual and digital world, the way we evaluate and match colour is a direct result of work carried out almost a century ago by Albert H. Munsell. Most modern day mathematical col..

Decorating your tree with the same old baubles this year?

07/11/2016

Why not add a dash of designer chic to your decorations with our original Pantone Christmas Baubles. Each painted glass baubles features an official Pantone colour and the reference code to match! ..

Colourful Coffee

05/11/2016

Adding colour in the kitchen has never been easier than with the new Pantone Coffee Maker. These percolating pots are made from solid aluminium, hold nine cups of espresso, and are available in two gl..

New Pantone Colours

03/08/2016

For 2016 Pantone have launched 112 new solid colours and 210 new textile colours. Now, the Pantone Plus Colour Library has a total of 1,867 solid Pantone Colours to choose from and the new eco-frie..

The most accurate way to mix Pantone colour inks.

24/06/2016

Pantone Formula Scales come in two sizes and are pre-programmed with all Pantone Matching System colours including The Pantone Plus Series, Pantone Metallics and Pantone Pastel & Neons, enabling y..

Pantone Textile Colour Numbers Explained

22/06/2016

You may have encountered more than one different kind of Pantone Textile colour references, TC, TCX, TP, TPX and now TPG! This can obviously be a little confusing, so here's the low down. It..

Pantone Plastics Explained

20/06/2016

The Pantone Plastics Colour System allows designers who work with plastics to select and specify colours by the use of opaque or transparent plastic colour chips. Colour is one of the most critical..

Pantone History

19/05/2016

In 1963 Pantone's founder, Lawrence Herbert, created an innovative system for identifying, matching and communicating colour. His insight, that colours could be interpreted differently by each ind..

Do you know about the Pantone Capsure?

01/01/2016

The Pantone Capsure will allow you to capture colour from virtually any material, fabric or surface and match it quickly and accurately to a Pantone reference. It can even extract, display and match u..

Pantone Colour of the Year 2016

01/01/2016

At the millennium, Pantone announced it's inaugural Pantone Colour of the Year, a symbolic colour selection made by the Pantone Colour Institute, aimed at reflecting what's taking place in the..

Pantone Minion Yellow

28/04/2015

Pantone has announced it's first character based, branded Pantone colour, Pantone Minion Yellow, which is inspired by the Minions characters from the popular Despicable Me film franchise. Panto..

Pantone Reference Library, Save big-style

18/02/2015

If your in need of a full selection of Pantone Colour Charts and Pantone Chips and would like to save some serious bucks, then the Pantone Reference Library could be the set for you! This extensive..

Pantone Portable Studio Guide

06/02/2015

The Pantone Portable Studio Guide is one of the best money saving Pantone bundles available. Its extensive range of over 9,000 Pantone Colours give any studio or press room the power to control its co..

Pantone Lighting Indicator Stickers

28/01/2015

Now available for both D50 and D65 range lighting, Pantone Lighting Indicator Stickers make it easy to determine if your viewing conditions are right for accurate colour matching. To get your colou..

New YouTube Channel

23/01/2015

National Colour Supplies has a new YouTube Channel. The aim of the Channel is to provide useful and informative videos about our products, our services, and colour in general. Our first video ex..

Pantone. The gen on the chart.

20/01/2015

Over the next couple of weeks our blog will be featuring the latest range of Pantone Colour Charts, giving you vital information about their formats, uses and the colour information they provide. P..

Pantone Colour of the Year 2015

02/01/2015

The Pantone Colour of the Year for 2015, 18-1438 Marsala, is a naturally robust and earthy wine red, that enriches ones mind, body and soul. Pantone 18-1438 Marsala is a subtly seductive shade that..

HAPPY NEW YEAR..!

01/01/2015

National Colour Supplies would like to thank you all for a stomping 2014 and wish you every success in 2015. ..

Pantone Metallics

31/12/2014

Pantone Metallics Guides and Chips books contain over 600 metallic colours that are not included in the standard range of Pantone Colour Charts. Pantone metallic colours are split into two sets, Me..

Deck The Halls!

15/11/2014

Decorating your Christmas tree with the same old dusty baubles this year? Why not add colour to your decorations with Pantone Universe Christmas Baubles? Created by Italian design house Seletti, Pa..

Pantone Colour of the Year 2014

01/01/2014

Expressive and exotic Pantone 18-3224 Radiant Orchid blooms to become the Pantone Colour of the Year for 2014. Radiant Orchid reaches across the colour wheel to intrigue the eye and spark the imagi..

Pantone Colour of the Year 2013

01/01/2013

Pantone 17-5641 Emerald is a lively, radiant, lush green and is the Pantone Colour of the Year for 2013. A vivid verdant green, Pantone Emerald enhances our sense of well-being by inspiring insight..

Pantone Colour of the Year 2012

01/01/2012

Dance into 2012 with the vivacious and appealing Pantone Colour of the Year, Pantone 17-1463 Tangerine Tango. Tangerine Tango is a spirited reddish orange that provides the energy boost we need to ..

Pantone Colour of the Year 2011

01/01/2011

Courageous, confident and vital, the Pantone colour of the year for 2011, Honeysuckle, is a brave new colour that will infuse, lift and carry you through the year. Pantone 18-2120 Honeysuckle embol..

Pantone Colour of the Year 2010

01/01/2010

Pantone announced the Pantone colour of the year for 2010 as Pantone 15-5519 Turquoise. An inviting, luminous hue that combined the serene qualities of blue and the invigorating aspects of green into ..

Pantone Colour of the Year 2009

01/01/2009

The colour yellow exemplifies the warmth and nurturing quality of the sun as we humans are naturally drawn to it; and the Pantone colour of the year for 2009 Mimosa Yellow is a hue that uses this reas..

Pantone Colour of the Year 2008

01/01/2008

From a colour forecasting perspective, Pantone selected it's colour of the year for 2008, Pantone 18-3943 Blue Iris, as it best represented the predicted colour direction for fashion, cosmetics and ho..

Pantone Colour of the Year 2007

01/01/2007

In 2007 Pantone, the leading global authority on colour and provider of professional colour standards for the design, fashion and printing industries, selected Chili Pepper 19-1557 as it's colour ..

Pantone Colour of the Year 2006

01/01/2006

The Pantone Colour of the Year for 2006 is Sand Dollar 13-1106. Pantone Sand Dollar 13-1106 is considered to be a neutral colour that expressed Pantone's concerns about the 2006 economy. While ..

Pantone Colour of the Year 2005

01/01/2005

The Pantone Colour of the Year for 2005 is Blue Turquoise 15-5217. Following on from the 2004 theme of colours from nature, Pantone Blue Turquoise 15-5217, Pantone's colour of the year for 2005..

Pantone Colour of the Year 2004

01/01/2004

The Pantone Colour of the Year for 2004 is Tigerlily 17-1456. Pantone Tigerlily 17-1456 acknowledges the cool exoticism of orange. Drawing its inspiration from the flowers around us, this warm hue ..

Pantone Colour of the Year 2003

01/01/2003

The Pantone Colour of the Year for 2003 is Aqua Sky 14-4811. Pantone Aqua Sky 14-4811 is from the Pantone Fashion, Home + Interiors colour library. Pantone Solid Colours in prin..

Pantone Colour of the Year 2002

01/01/2002

The Pantone Colour of the Year for 2002 is True Red. This vivid red was chosen for it's deep and meaningful hue. Pantone True Red 19-1664 can be associated with love, passion and power. T..

Pantone Colour of the Year 2001

01/01/2001

Pantone launch the Colour of the Year for 2001 is Fuchsia Rose 17-2031. Drastically different from the pervious years colour Cerulean Blue, Fuchsia Rose PANTONE 17-2031 is much more exciting, and w..

Pantone Colour of the Year 2000

01/01/2000

Pantone announces it's first Colour of the Year for 2000 is Cerulean Blue, the colour for the millennium. The official colour of the millennium and Pantone's inaugural colour of the year is..