About
Pantone’s Plastic Chips allow seamless color matching between plastic products, print materials, hard goods, and textiles. Now available in the Pantone Color of the Year for 2023, PANTONE® 18-1750 VIVA MAGENTA is a brave and fearless red shade demonstrating a new signal of strength. Graphic, product, and fashion designers can use Pantone’s Plastic Chips as a standard for visualizing, communicating, specifying, and controlling color for consumer products in plastic and mixed materials. Over 4,000 colors correspond with Pantone Graphics, and Fashion, Home + Interiors systems.
Features
- Made of polypropylene, the industry-standard plastic reference
- Chips are large enough to be measured by a spectrophotometer
- Two tiers of thickness, 1mm and 2mm, for accurate color visualization
- 7.62 x 4.83 cm (3” x 1.9”)
- Double-sided with both glossy and matte finishes
- Key ring hole in top right corner allows chips to be organized into palettes
Colors
- Sold as individual colors, each identified with a Pantone Color Reference for our PMS (Graphics) or FHI systems
- Each chip includes corresponding pigment formulations for manufacturing accuracy
- Can be specified to any Pantone Graphics and Fashion, Home + Interiors Systems colors to match plastics to printed materials, fabric, leather, and cosmetics
- Can be produced to any custom color developed by the Pantone Color Institute™ (PCI)
Application
- Enables color choices to be communicated in a plastic medium
- Use for palette development, color approval, and production of plastic products
- Use for any product made of colored plastic, including beauty, food and beverage, consumer electronics, fashion accessories, hard home, toys, medical devices, and more
- Provides the quality control team with a reference for all colors being used in production