Pantone Color Of The Year- Classic Blue...

[markh]

Pantone is a company that sets the standard for color for designers and artists (which I am not...)

People use Pantone colors to specify printing colors, etc..

 

Each year they have a "Color of the Year". This year it's:

PANTONE 19-4052 Classic Blue

Instilling calm, confidence, and connection, this enduring blue hue highlights our desire for a dependable and stable foundation on which to build as we cross the threshold into a new era.

A timeless and enduring blue hue, PANTONE 19-4052 Classic Blue is elegant in its simplicity....

https://www.pantone.com/color-intelligence/color-of-the-year/color-of-the-year-2020

You can buy coffee cups, journals, etc in official Pantone Classic Blue. But no ink! :

https://www.pantone.com/pantone-lifestyle

So.. where's the ink.? Seems ideal - we definitely need an ink that "Instills calm, confidence, and connection." I have several pens that would benefit from this....

(Of course, the color above doesn't match the official Pantone color. Best I could do on FPN

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[Parker51]

PANTONE is a rather self promoting organization which charges well, for their services. They are not a non-profit trying to innocently harmonize colors for human benefit based on some mystical set of beliefs. I for one do not value their opinions and actually find many of their color choices and combinations horrendous as well as very limiting and so chose to ignore them. If enough businesses don't pay them and ignore them, they will go away as they are a business selling color, much in the way of the tale of the Emperors new clothes.

[taimdala]

Based on what Pantone says, the hexadecimal number is #0f4c81

 

Gorgeous!

I hope this swatch helps us find a matching ink. I would love to get some.

[taimdala]

PANTONE is a rather self promoting organization which charges well, for their services. They are not a non-profit trying to innocently harmonize colors for human benefit based on some mystical set of beliefs. I for one do not value their opinions and actually find many of their color choices and combinations horrendous as well as very limiting and so chose to ignore them. If enough businesses don't pay them and ignore them, they will go away as they are a business selling color, much in the way of the tale of the Emperors new clothes.

 

I just like the big swatches of color they post on their website. It spares me the trouble of figuring the hex codes. I just right click and save the image, then open in photoshop and sample the color. I make my swatch, save it to a file, and go on my way. (Of course, I could set my color picker to the factory-loaded Pantone swatch palette ... but where's the fun in that?)

Edited December 13, 2019 by taimdala

[sandy101]

It looks like Diamine's Velvet Blue.

[Addertooth]

Hmmm I wonder what color they would suggest for Fear, Dismay and Capitulation. I have some legal briefs to write

Edited December 15, 2019 by Addertooth

[jmccarty3]

We need some for Opprobrium, Scorn, and Contempt. Also for Ignominy and Disgrace.

[aardvarkbark]

So.. where's the ink.? Seems ideal - we definitely need an ink that "Instills calm, confidence, and connection." I have several pens that would benefit from this....

 

 

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Depending on your nib, it may or may not look like that though. I write with an EEF and every rich blue looks blue-black.