About the new Pantone Plus color system

In the graphic art, you hear the word Pantone a lot and it's often used …interchangeably with spot color. But Pantone, the company is not an ink …manufacturer, they're a manufacturer of color reference guide. …And in fact they're not limited to printing. …They market color guides for plastics and for textiles. …But you've probably seen the new Pantone Plus system. …And you might be curious between that, and maybe your old Pantone book right …there on your desk. Well for one thing, there are more colors. …The older PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM had 1,114 colors.…

The new PANTONE PLUS started with 1,341, and then they added 336, so now there's a …total of 1,677. And you'll also notice that the new fan …books are arranged chromatically, so they go by the spectrum instead of numerically. …Which I think makes sense, but if you have the old habit of looking for …particular swatches by their numbers. Don't worry there's a numerical index in …the back, so you can find it either way. If you're looking for it by the number, …