Pantone Plus Essentials

Essentials Guide SetVersatility, variety, and value for graphics and printSKU: GPG301N

The Essentials Guide Set bundles six of Pantone’s top-selling graphics tools into an affordable, portable starter kit. Useful for both designers and design students at all stages of the workflow, from finding color inspiration and communicating color, to verifying color accuracy and translating spot colors to CMYK, HTML, or RGB.

• Includes Formula Guide (Coated & Uncoated), Color Bridge (Coated & Uncoated), and CMYK (Coated & Uncoated)
• Comes with a convenient carrying case for travel and storage
• Offers a total of 4,735 market-driven spot, spot-to-process, and process colors
• An on-the-go reference ideal for school, studio, stakeholder meetings, and press checks

Format

• Six portable, handheld fan decks in a convenient carrying case
• Printed on the most commonly used paper stock weights (100 lb coated and 80 lb uncoated)
• Lighting Indicator pages demonstrate when lighting conditions are suitable for color evaluation

Color

• Complete collection of all 1,867 traditional spot colors, 1,845 spot-to-process colors, and 2,868 four-color process colors
• Each color displayed with its coordinating number and ink formulation or values
• Colors arranged in chromatic format, with index at the back of the guides indicating numeric location
• Tolerance aim <2dE to our master standard data

Application

• Use throughout the design process from inspiration to press check 
• Ideal for comparing spot-to-process color when CMYK printing is required
• Use for print materials, branding and logos, packaging, digital design, and animation
• Offers 4,735 total spot and four-color process colors at a value price
• Ink formulations help printers accurately achieve Pantone Spot Colors on printed materials 
• Compact size travels from school, to studio, to stakeholder meetings and press checks