Doesn PANTONE make a printed web color reference?
PANTONE ColorWeb (which by the way just appears to have come way down in price, $70 to 30 or thereabouts) includes a printed Internet Color SystemTM Guide. This is a booklet of color samples in the tradition of their famous and immensely useful Process Color System Guide. The Internet Guide uses Hexachrome to reproduce the 216 web-safe screen colors. It does a very good job, especially compared with a simple translation to CMYK. Still, many of the colors do not compare with each other correctly. Here’s an example from page 5: PANTONE Color Designation HTML Real screen colors What the Guide looks like N5-04 FF0000 N5-05 CC0000 Similar discrepancies exist with blue (N19-03 vs. N19-04), green (N30-03 vs. N30-04) and cyan (N24-05 vs. N24-06). I bought ColorWeb in late 1998. Pantone may have improved this since. Feedback welcome. As a printed color reference, here is a comparison: PANTONE ColorWeb Internet Color SystemTM Guide VisiBone 216-Color Webmaster’s Palette Poster 6-color printing p
