Pantone Launches New Tints Guide

Pantone has launched its newly redesigned tints guide.

Pantone has launched its newly redesigned tints guide.

Used by graphic designers, pre-press professionals and printers, Pantone said that its tints guide displays tints of over 1,114 solid Pantone colours.

Re-engineered for greater utility, the guide is now offered as a four-volume fan guide set, on coated and uncoated stock, featuring larger colour blocks and tint effects that bleed off the page for press check ease, said the company.

Pantone believes that the tints are a creative and economical way to add variety and interesting design effects to solid colour printing.

Graphic designers and pre-press professionals use Pantone tints to accurately predict the effects that can be created with various screen tints of solid colours, including hard to distinguish halftones.

The tints also make it easy to determine the legibility of reverse type and colour or black surprinting and they can be applied using today's popular design software, such as Adobe Photoshop and QuarkXPress.

Helmut Eifert, the vice president of Pantone Europe, said: "The tints guide is an important visual reference for predicting what will happen in print.

The new fan deck format provides more colour area and eliminates the guesswork in the selection of legible tints and solid colour effects.

The bleeding edges will be especially valuable to printers and creative professionals when comparing colours and conducting colour checks on press.

The guide eliminates the time-consuming workarounds printers were forced to endure to ensure they had a good colour match." The new fan deck format features tints of two solid colours per page and depicts colour printed as thin and thick rules and bold and light typefaces, as well as halftone examples and black, colour and reverse type effects on every tint.

The redesigned 2005 edition of the guide is printed on brighter, whiter paper to reflect the most commonly specified paper used by designers.

The stock is also said to be more durable, which protects the guide when used in the field.

The new colour guides are produced on the company's new customised KBA printing press, which has been engineered for improved colour consistency, said Pantone.

Pantone tints will be available from May 27 at a suggested retail price of GBP 164 (249 Euros) for the four-book set.

The set includes a two-volume coated set and a two-volume uncoated set, each of 559 colour pages.

The guide can be pre-ordered at Pantone's website.

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