What do the color percentages in the color card mean?

Domestic standard color card

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1. Textile and garment industry, national standard color card

——CNCS color card

Introduction to CNCS, which has been established as a national standard and textile industry standard: Since 2001, the China Textile Information Center has undertaken the "China Applied Color Research Project" of the Ministry of Science and Technology and established the CNCS color system. After that, extensive color research was conducted, color information was collected through the center's trend research department, China Fashion Color Association, foreign partners, buyers, designers, etc., and market research was carried out. After several years of hard work, the first version of the color system was developed and the materials and processes used were determined.

In 2006, China Textile Information Center adjusted the system based on the opinions of partners, market stakeholders, color experts and other parties, completed the trial production of the second version of the color system, and worked together with Zhejiang Longsheng Holding Co., Ltd. and De DATACOLOR and others officially started the production of CNCS textile color system standards. At the same time, they carried out research on digital colors and digital popular colors to integrate the CNCS color system with digital colors. On this basis, the production of CNCS textile color standards was completed.

2. Construction industry, national standard color card

——GB/T15608-2006 "Chinese Color System", GSB 16-2062-2007 "Chinese Color System Standard Sample Book" And GB/T 18922-2002 "Representation Method of Architectural Color", GSB16-1517-2002 "Chinese Architectural Color Card".

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3. Paint film color standard sample card

——National Coatings and Pigments Standards Technical Committee

4. Munsell Lightness Selected Color Card is an internationally accepted color card, widely used in textile, clothing, photography, printing, and packaging industries

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International Standard Color card

1. American Pantone color card

Provides special color cards for graphic design, clothing and home furnishing, paint, printing and other industries. It is a color card widely used internationally.

Pantone Company, headquartered in Carlstadt, NJ, USA, is a world-renowned authority specializing in the development and research of color. It is also a supplier of color systems and leading technologies. , offering professional color selections and precise communication language across many industries. The name PANTONE? has become world-renowned as the international standard language for color communication among designers, manufacturers, retailers and customers.

In 1963, Pantone founder Lawrence Herbert developed an innovative color system that could identify, match, and communicate colors to solve the problem of creating accurate color ratios in the graphics industry. problem. He realized that everyone has different views on the same spectrum and brought about the innovation of the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM?, which is a book of standard colors in a sector format.

For more than 40 years, Pantone has extended its color matching system to various industries where color plays an important role, such as digital technology, textiles, plastics, architecture and interior decoration. It will continue to develop color communication tools for various industries and boldly adopt new digital technologies to meet the needs of design and production professionals.

The 2010 version of the Pantone Spot Color Formula Guide "PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM?" (PMS for short)

is a method for selecting, determining, matching and controlling ink colors authoritative international reference standards.

Among them, the "Pantone Formula Guide" consists of a large number of thin cardboards with each page about 6 × 2 inches or 15 × 5 cm, with a series of related colors, Pantone color numbers and color mixing formulas printed on one side, bound into a long book It is a booklet that can be opened into a fan shape. Because the ink will fade over time or is frequently read, Pantone updates the version of the color matching system every year. The new 2005 edition is divided into three volumes and is printed on glossy coated paper, offset paper and matte coated paper respectively, with a total of 1,341 colors.

When a graphic designer selects a specified color (for example, PMS655 dark blue) from the "Pantone Color Matching System" and submits it to the printing factory for printing, the printing factory needs to use its own equipment and inks to prepare a product that is consistent with the specified color. For color, of course, designers and printers need to use the "Pantone Color Matching System" of the same year, because colors with the same number in different versions will have slight differences.

People often mistakenly think that "Pantone" is a color management system. Most home or office color printers use the CMYK system, and "Pantone" is an ink color mixing formula, commonly known as professional in the printing industry. Color, so "Pantone" does not belong to the color gamut of RGB (screen color) or CMYK (four-color printing), but is used to extend more colors available for printing (including metallic colors and luminous colors).

The "PANTONE Color Matching System" has developed different products for different purposes. The more famous ones include:

Digital PANTONE Process Color System

Color chips and guides provide a comprehensive color library of more than 3,000 colors for four-color (CMYK) overprint processing. The PANTONE solid to process guide compares a Pantone spot color to its closest match in a CMYK overprint, available on a computer monitor, output device, or printing press. Other Pantone Color Reference Guides for the graphic arts include metallics, pastels, shades, duotones, film, and foil.

PANTONE Hexachrome? Color System. (PANTONE Hexachrome? Color System)

It is a patented, penetrating six-color ultra-high-quality printing program , can reproduce many brighter permanent color images, simulating brighter colors that are more realistic than standard four-color overprinting. The Hexachrome? program is powered by industry leaders including Adobe, Quark, Macromedia, Kodak Polychrome, Agfa, DuPont, Polaroid and Fuji Electric.

PANTONE Textile\Home

The PANTONE for fashion and home color system (PANTONE for fashion and home)

is the designer’s primary tool for selection and determining the colors used in textile and clothing production. The system includes 1,925 cotton or paper colors, which can not only create new color libraries and conceptual color schemes, but also provide color communication and control in production programs.

The PANTONE VIEW Color Planner is a twice-yearly forecasting tool for fashion color trends, providing seasonal color guidance and inspiration 24 months in advance, with a view to creating new trends in men's clothing. , women's clothing, sportswear, casual wear, cosmetics and industry design, etc. are widely used. PANTONE VIEW Home, launched in 2004, is a tool book for predicting popular colors in the home industry.

Outdoor Architecture and Interior Decoration

At the 2002 NeoCon Expo, Pantone products for outdoor architecture and interior decoration were exhibited, marking its formal introduction to commercial and industrial applications. and forays into the interior design industry in the hospital sector. The system allows designers to incorporate various aspects within the industry such as flooring, leather, fabrics, carpets, fibers, furniture and veneers, among others.

Pantone, Inc. is working closely with leading manufacturers and design firms to integrate Pantone products for outdoor architecture and interior decoration into their design programs.

Plastic products series, PANTONE PLASTICS Color System TM (PANTONE PLASTICS Color System TM)

Allow designers, manufacturers, and suppliers who use plastic products to pass the Opaque and clear plastic chips to select, define, control and produce hundreds of colors.

PANTONE Color Cue TM

Launched in 2001, PANTONE Color Cue is pre-programmed with color data from the PANTONE Color Matching System. Has become a portable colorimeter that can provide color spectrum. It quickly identifies the closest Pantone color on any flat surface and provides recipes for reproduction in four-color overprinting, Pantone High-Fidelity six-color printing, and web design modes for graphics experts, prepress experts, printers, Web designers, photographers, and retailers speed up their color management workflows. Pantone color meters are used in many industries: graphic designers can instantly select a Pantone color and its value for print and web pages. Printers can take color samples and compare them to the closest Pantone color standard for identification. Retailers can easily identify and communicate color through marketing materials, catalogs, and websites. Another version of the Pantone colorimeter supports the PANTONE Textile Color System?

Markets and Products

Each year, Pantone, Inc. and its many franchise merchants in more than 100 countries around the world provide countless products and services ranging from graphic arts to textiles. , clothing, interior furnishings, plastic products, architecture and industrial design and other fields. Related color cards in China can be obtained through domestic traders, such as Qiantongcai and other domestic sales companies

RAL-K7

2, German RAL color card

RAL It is a German color card brand. This color card is widely used internationally. The Chinese translation is: RAL color card.

Since 1927, when RAL was involved in color, it created a color card. A unified language that establishes standard statistics and naming for a variety of colors. These standards are widely understood and applied around the world. The 4-digit RAL color has been used as a color standard for 70 years and has developed to more than 200 types so far. The matte color basic color card is RAL-840HR, and the glossy basic color card is 841-GL. These basic color blocks meet a wide range of applications and have been used by many important companies and research institutions. The RAL-840HR and RAL-841GL color registries serve as color samples for use in design. They also include safety and signal colors in compliance with the color requirements specified by DIN and ISO. The RAL design system has been developed for professional color design and is particularly useful for the construction industry. It contains 1688 colors arranged in a regular order. Therefore, seven-digit colors are divided into separate RAL colors. Unlike the RAL classical color card, the color codes of the RAL design system are not arranged arbitrarily. These seven-digit colors show the chroma, brightness and chroma (the saturation of the color). Degree) technical measurement value of HLC. Because the color numbering is based on the international standard CIE color solid, the coding is clear and easy to understand. You can find any color you want to choose. It is an excellent tool for designers and other people related to color. Using this system to produce coordinated color combinations will become very easy. Easy

3. Swedish NCS Color Card

NCS The research on NCS began in 1611 and has now become the national inspection standard in Sweden, Norway, Spain and other countries. It is the most commonly used color card in Europe. Extensive color system.

4. Japanese DIC color card

Specially used in industry, graphic design, packaging, paper printing, architectural coatings, inks, textiles, printing and dyeing, design, etc.

5. Munsell Lightness Selected Color Card is an internationally accepted color card and is widely used in textile, clothing, photography, printing and packaging industries