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Pantone’s “Minion Yellow” Isn’t Just Annoying, It’s Bad For Designers

Minion Yellow is a customized shade issued by Pantone with the express purpose of promoting the current installment of a certain film franchise which opened last weekend in theaters nationwide. It’s supposed to make people feel happy. But it makes me feel worried. Pantone is a system for identifying colors. It is a great tool…

Tech News Alissa Walker Jul 14

Pantone’s Newest (And Best) Color: Minion Yellow

It’s been three years since Pantone, self-declared arbiter of visible light, has declared a new color. But after 36 months of hard toil, the research team has emerged from the lab with the latest addition: Pantone Minion Yellow. Pantone is a household name among designers and artists thanks to its Color Matching System, a way…

Tech News Chris Mills Apr 19

Classic paintings recreated using Pantone color chips

British artist Nick Smith recreates classic paintings from Vincent Van Gogh, Warhol, or Rene Magritte, using Pantone color chips. If you look at it up close—clicking on the expand button— you will only see the color chips, but if you step back—or zoom out—you’ll see a pixel-art version of the original paintings. Marilyn Monroe by…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi Feb 3

Pantone’s 2015 Color of the Year Is Warm, Comforting Booze

Like a childhood mood ring you really wanted to believe in but always knew was hogwash, every year Pantone predicts our national mood by highlighting a single shade from its library. This year’s choice—the company’s 15th annual color of the year—all about “sophisticated, natural earthiness.” Or maybe just wine, which works too. Today the company…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Dec 4

Should Paint Ads Really Remind Us So Much of Highlander?

Pantone’s latest series of ads goes the minimalist route of matching iconic character colors to their paints. But, as much as I love Kermit, the tagline stuck out more than the image. “There can only be one” is one word swap away from being Highlander’s famous “There can be only one.” And then there’s the…

io9 Katharine Trendacosta Jun 27

Who Painted This 300-Year-Old Guidebook to Every Imaginable Color?

More than two centuries before Pantone divided the visible spectrum into six-digit color codes, a mysterious Dutch artist crafted this extraordinary guide to painting in watercolor. Hundreds of subtly varying colors were mixed by hand for this one-of-a-kind, encyclopedic volume. As Colossal has pointed out, the 800-page book resembles a comprehensive Pantone’s color guide from…

Tech News Sarah Zhang May 5

This Is the Official Color of 2014

Pantone, the self-declared official body in control of the entire visible spectrum, has announced the color of the year for 2014. You’re looking at it. Dubbed Radiant Orchid—you can use its technical name PANTONE 18-3224—it’s actually… kind of just… pinky purple? Still, a very nice shade of pinky purple. And, boy, you better get used…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Dec 5

Pantone Food Pairings Are The Perfect Snacks for Designers

Art nerds will know their complimentary colors, but for the rest of us, food pairings are far more interesting/important. Minneapolis-based graphic designer and illustrator David Schwen, but together this clever little collection of “pantone pairings” as little Instagram art project. And while you’d be hard-pressed to find a bucket of “pantone cookie” for your walls,…

Tech News Eric Limer Mar 3

Forget Pantone, Here’s Beertone

Who cares what color the walls are when there’s beer in front of you? That’s exactly what the guys between Beertone thought, when they decided to put together a color chart that takes you on a journey through the entire spectrum of beer. Beertone explains: The bright beers will start the guide ending with the…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jan 10

These Pantone Color Swatch Scarves Can Match Anything

You can get Pantone suitcases and even Pantone Christmas ornaments, and now you can display your absurd devotion to that library of color by wrapping some color swatches around your neck. https://gizmodo.com/pantone-suitcases-have-it-made-in-15-shades-5925927 The Perfect Matching Scarf is clever little line of scarves that essentially just blow up Pantone color swatches and port them to a…

Tech News Eric Limer Dec 30

Here Is the Official Color of 2013

Pantone, the hoity toity decision council for everything we’re allowed to see, has announced the color of the year for 2013: green. Or well fine, emerald. It’s unclear what scientific process Pantone goes through to determine what the COTY is (other than complete arbitrariness) but hey, emerald’s a nice color. Last year’s color of the…

Tech News Casey Chan Dec 7

Pantone Suitcases Have It Made in 15 Shades

Olive green, army green, pea green—when you travel, every bag looks the same, and you find yourself with that fear in the pit of your stomach that someone is going to snatch the wrong one (specifically, yours) off the carousel. That’s less likely to happen if you have one of these smart, bright suitcases from…

Tech News Leslie Horn Jul 13

Human skin tones classified as Pantone colors

The words that the English language uses to define human skin tones are imprecise, and doesn’t capture the wide range of colors that exist in the human palette. Angélica Dass attempts to catalog human skin tones by identifying individuals with the Pantone Goe System. Brazilian artist Angélica Dass (Pantone 7522 C) undertook her Humanae project…

io9 Lauren Davis Jul 7

The Queen’s Outfits As a Rainbow of Pantone Colors

To celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s 60 years on the throne Pantone teamed up with the design firm Leo Burnett London to make this special limited edition Pantone color guide to Her Majesty’s colorful wardrobe. Each of the 60 cards in the spiral guide shows Queen Elizabeth in a formal suit that’s been splashed a different…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Jun 4

There Is Now a Phone That Combines Pantone and Radiation Detectors

Gimmicky or not, Sharp is not averse to wedging weird and new(ish) technologies into their phones. As such, they’ve teamed up with Japanese cellphone peddler Softbank to release a phone that not only has a radiation detector, but comes in eight Pantone-certified colors. The “Pantone 5 107SH” is a 3.7-inch, Android-based phone that apparently is…

Tech News Adrian Covert May 29

Brand New Colors, Random Tats, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn’t possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn’t worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case. If You Get a Random Tattoo From an App, You Deserve a Random Tattoo From an App…

Tech News Brian Barrett Apr 25

Here Is the Official Color of Next Year

Pantone, official arbiter of the visible spectrum, has declared its selection for next year’s color—a statement of both insane arbitrariness, and great weight in the world of things. So what’ll it be? You’re lookin’ at it! The above hue is Tangerine Tango (also referred to as “red”), which, as The Color of 2012, must grace…

Tech News Sam Biddle Dec 11

Daily Desired: Pantone Ornaments Will Make You Wish It Was Christmas All Year

As the paragon of pretty paint colors Pantone should really be celebrated all year. Who cares if it’s not remotely Christmas yet? These Pantone bulbs are so cool you should go poach a pine tree from the forest right now. We’ve spent a lot of time thinking about all of the products we’d like to…

Tech News Mario Aguilar Oct 20

A List of Things That Aren’t Available in Pantone Colors But Should Be, in No Particular Order

I saw these baseball bats, and though, Wow, Pantone baseball bats, I’d love to smash something up real good with something so sophisticated. But it turns out they’re not. Well screw that to hell. They should be, along with these: Phone chargers HDMI cables Roombas Skittles Morning after pills Asthma inhalers Toupees Merkins Braces Senator…

Tech News Sam Biddle Aug 25

Color-Match Your USB Sticks to Your Other Pantone Tat

I was just browsing Pantone’s site—y’know, eyeing up their markers—when I noticed they sell customizable Pantone USB sticks. Not a bad little present for a design-fiend, and they start at just $13 for 1GB. [Pantone] https://gizmodo.com/is-it-wrong-to-crave-a-big-box-of-dual-ended-pantone-ma-5825178

Tech News Kat Hannaford Aug 19

Pantone’s “Minion Yellow” Isn’t Just Annoying, It’s Bad For Designers

Pantone’s Newest (And Best) Color: Minion Yellow

Classic paintings recreated using Pantone color chips

Pantone’s 2015 Color of the Year Is Warm, Comforting Booze

Should Paint Ads Really Remind Us So Much of Highlander?

Who Painted This 300-Year-Old Guidebook to Every Imaginable Color?

This Is the Official Color of 2014

Pantone Food Pairings Are The Perfect Snacks for Designers

Forget Pantone, Here’s Beertone

These Pantone Color Swatch Scarves Can Match Anything

Here Is the Official Color of 2013

Pantone Suitcases Have It Made in 15 Shades

Human skin tones classified as Pantone colors

The Queen’s Outfits As a Rainbow of Pantone Colors

There Is Now a Phone That Combines Pantone and Radiation Detectors

Brand New Colors, Random Tats, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

Here Is the Official Color of Next Year

Daily Desired: Pantone Ornaments Will Make You Wish It Was Christmas All Year

A List of Things That Aren’t Available in Pantone Colors But Should Be, in No Particular Order

Color-Match Your USB Sticks to Your Other Pantone Tat

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