Most of the apparel buyers give reference to a Pantone colour code (example PANTONE 14–4510 TPX or Aquatic) to follow for print colour matching.
The Pantone colour matching book (Cotton swatch library) is costlier and small garment export houses/manufacturers normally don’t buy this color matching guide book. When needed buying house and buyer used to send a cutting of Pantone colour chip with colour code number to their suppliers for printing and dyeing colour referene.
Now Pantone has added a tool to find Pantone colour online in their website. Now by entering a colour code in the search box, you will get colour standard.
So next time when you need to see what colour a Pantone code means, you can quickly check it by using this search box. Even you can become smart by learning colour code and identifying the colour very easily.
Note: While using this search box you should remember that colours shown on this site are computer simulations of the PANTONE colours and may not match PANTONE-identified colour standards.
See the following example. I have entered colour code 18-3224 TCX and entered search button. I got following screen, which shows where this colour chip is available and page number and the colour name (Radiant Orchid).
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| Pantone online colour finder |
Image source: Screenshot of the webpage from store.pantone.com
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