RGB color to PMS colors
This is a color matching tool that can provide some suggestions for spot colors(Pantone color code). If you don't have Photoshop or Illustrator, and you would like to know what PMS color is matching to a RGB color, this is your best online free matching tool. Simply pick a color on the top color panel, or enter the RGB, HEX, CMYK or HSV color codes, then, this tool will give you some spot color suggestions automatically.
How to use this tool
- Select a RGB color you would like on the color picker panel or you can input a HEX code direct
- If any PMS colors close to the selected RGB color, it will show
- If no PMS colors close the the selected RGB color, please try to pick another RGB color.
- If you don't get any color popup, try to add the "Color Distance" to search more colors.
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If you have a logo image, and you would like to find out what Pantone colours are matching to the logo, here is a free online tool for you, find PMS colors on an image, easy to use, no install need, FREE, try it you will like it.
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What are PMS colors?
Normaly every professional in the premium and gift industry knows what PMS means: Pantone Matching System. Here is the problem at hand: How to explain to a printing company color you want them for printing your business cards or a promotional product ?
Sure, you can send them an image via email with the color, but this image will show up differently on his screen as it did on your own. In fact I work with two screens and when I display the same image on both screen colors will never be perfectly the same. Every computer monitor is different, every printer is different. Unless your equipment is calibrated with the Pantone hue, the color depicted on your screen will not be accurate and could be many shades off.
This is why the PMS, Pantone matching system was created. It's a standard language for color identification and communication. When you say to the printer : I want you to print a pink 1767C, you can be sure he knows which colour you mean. So it's easy, just use a pantone guide , which contains over 1000 different colours and tell the printer the pantone code of the colour you choose. What if you don't have a pantone guide ? surely, any professional printing company has one, and for sure you can ask them to have a look.
What is RGB Color?
Digital cameras and scanners and create images using combinations of just three colors: Red, Green and Blue (RGB). These are the primary colors of visible light and this how computers and televisions display images on their screens. RGB colors often appear brighter and more vivid specifically because the light is being projected directly into the eyes of the viewer.
This is an "additive" process in which the three colors are combined in different amounts to produce various colors. It is called "additive" because you must add varying amounts of two or more colors to achieve hues and values other than the three basic red, green and blue colors.
Computer monitors and televisions vary the amount of each color from 0 to a maximum of 255. Equal maximum amounts of all three colors (often expressed as R255, G255, B255) creates white. The absence of all three colors (R0, G0, B0) creates black. Equal amounts of all three colors somewhere between 0 and 255 will create varying shades of gray.