One such tastemaker is Coloro, which developed the Coloro System, a digital color matching program. Its 2025 choice of "Future Dusk" is very different from Pantone's 2025 Color of the Year choice ...

Pantone was founded in 1962 and introduced its global color-matching system a year later (enabling a universal set of standards to ensure shades were matching exactly across industries and ...

Spot colors, or solid inks specified with the Pantone Matching System, are used for conventional and screen printing. CMYK values are used for commercial color printing where colors are produced ...

For a company that bases its whole product line on colours, it might seem odd to say that Pantone do not own or sell colours. Instead their product is in effect a colour matching service ...