Pantone Colours

[Guest]

I am preparing a slide show that needs to refelct the colours of a Client
Logo - The Client only has the logo specification in Pantone Colours.

Is there a way I can specify typefaces to match the Pantone colours, rather
than having to guess or work by trial and error?
I seem unable to find any references to Pantone colours in Powerpoint Help
files!!

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks

 

[nhaims]

PowerPoint is pretty terrible when it comes to color (matching,
consistency, you name it), and there is no way to specify Pantone
colors. The only thing PPT understands is RGB. So, your best bet is to
find the closest RGB match. My suggestion is to open the Pantone file
in Photoshop and find the RGB value given in the Color Picker box. If
you don't have a file to go on, you can select the Pantone number in
Photoshop from scratch and do the same. That will give to a value to
choose in PPT.

 

[Guest]

Most helpful - But I will now obviously need to do some work!

Thanks for the advice.

Regards

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I am preparing a slide show that needs to refelct the colours of a Client
Logo - The Client only has the logo specification in Pantone Colours.

Is there a way I can specify typefaces to match the Pantone colours, rather
than having to guess or work by trial and error?
I seem unable to find any references to Pantone colours in Powerpoint Help
files!!

Strictly speaking, you can't match Pantone colors other than by printing on the
appropriate type of paper with the correct Pantone inks on a printing press.

Pantone sells a PPT add-in that lets you choose from a "Pantone" palette but
converts the selected color into the nearest Pantone-approved RGB equivalent
for PPT to use. Sometimes the RGB values are fairly close to the real Pantone
color, sometimes they're way off.

If you have Corel Draw or any other reasonably sophisticated drawing program,
you can draw a rectangle, assign it the pantone color you want, then change to
the RGB color model to get an RGB equivalent.

Turn off ALL color management/correction features first, or the results will be
wrong.

Finally, even if you get a pretty good match on screen, on your computer, all
bets are off when the presentation dispays on somebody else's computer or gets
printed on who knows what printer.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Is there a way I can specify typefaces to match the Pantone colours, rather

than having to guess or work by trial and error?
I seem unable to find any references to Pantone colours in Powerpoint Help
files!!

This seemed like a useful thing to write up, so have a look here:

How can I use Pantone, TruMatch, CMYK or other colors in PowerPoint?
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00666.htm

It now includes links to Pantone's Office add-in and to a page on the web that
gives RGB equivalents for a ton of common PMS colors.

 

[Sonia]

A google search will lead you to tables such as
http://www.reeddesign.co.uk/test/pantone2rgb.html

 

[Echo S]

This seemed like a useful thing to write up, so have a look here:

How can I use Pantone, TruMatch, CMYK or other colors in PowerPoint?
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00666.htm

It now includes links to Pantone's Office add-in and to a page on the web that
gives RGB equivalents for a ton of common PMS colors.

Cool, Steve. Thanks for doing this! I really like that reeddesign color
conversion table.

(This may be one FAQ number I'll actually remember, especially as these
color spaces are often the bane of my existence! <G>)

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Cool, Steve. Thanks for doing this! I really like that reeddesign color

conversion table.

(This may be one FAQ number I'll actually remember, especially as these
color spaces are often the bane of my existence! <G>)

Tell me! I used to do lots of conversions of logos and stuff for use in PPT.
Talk about yer stacked decks. It always started out in Adobe Illustrator/Mac
in CMYK with fonts I didn't have and needed to get converted to PPT/Windows.
Urggh.

Oh, btw, that Pantone addin only costs like 40 bucks (and IIRC it adds Pantone
swatches to PPT and Word too and maybe Excel).

 

[Guest]

All looks great - I am glad I asked this...But it is now getting a bit
techie for me....!!!!!

Simply, can someone (anyone) tell me what the best RGB colours are to match
the Pantones of:

287 and
298

And for me, it will be fine if they are just screen matches......Not a lot
of printing going on here....

Any help kindly appreciated.

Cheers


David

 

[rex]

FWIW
Corel 10 gives me the following
pantone 287
R 0
G 56
B 147

and for 298
R 81
G 181
B 224

Rex

 

[Guest]

Tried that and it looks great...Many thanks...appreciated......

 

[Echo S]

That table Sonia linked you to (
http://www.reeddesign.co.uk/test/pantone2rgb.html ) reports those as:

Pantone 287 = 0, 56, 150

Pantone 298 = 87, 181, 224

That table's really not "techie" at all. Just look for the Pantone color
number on the left column and then use the RGB values in the red, green, and
blue columns. The table even colors the columns in red, green and blue for
you...