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Tools for Inspiration
Blue, but which blue? Pantone’s portable and desktop colour books let you see colour families at a glance so you can hone in on exactly the right shade for your new project.
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Inspiring and Expressing Colour/defining the essential trends
Tools for Creation
Try colour combinations, match your inspiration samples or pin to a mood board – Pantone’s removable format palette-bulding tools make palette development easy and fun. Work with confidence, knowing that your colours will be achievable once you reach final production.
Pantone Fashion Colour System explained >
Nylon Brights Set
Nylon swatches in 21 outrageous super-bright fluorescent shades
Tools for Production
The production stage can be the most nerve-wracking, but you’re not sweating it. That’s because the Pantone Colours in your design all map back to individually available colour standards, backed by spectral colour data. Lab dips will be approved faster, with fewer reruns and easier on the budget.
Pantone Fashion Colour System explained >
Nylon Brights Set
Nylon swatches in 21 outrageous super-bright fluorescent shades
<li>New collection of nylon swatches featuring the 21 most important shocking fluorescent shades provides designers developing products in nylon materials with an internationally recognised standard for accurate colour selection, specification and reproduction</li> <li>Set of 21 1 ¼” x 4” loose format nylon swatch standards are conveniently packaged on a single ring for easy removability and generously sized to provide greater visualisation.</li> <li>Hot nylon shades are ideal on their own or can be mixed together to create more intense colour schemes.</li> <li>Each nylon brights swatch ring set includes a BHT-free amber UV pouch to protect the colours while not in use.</li> <li>Includes COLOR MANAGER software download (a saving of £32/39 €) enabling digital design with all PANTONE Colour libraries</li></ul> <p>Of these 21 super bright colours, 14 contain flavine or rhodamine acid dyestuff; this qualifies them as “true” fluorescents in that they absorb invisible ultraviolet light and emit it as visible light, increasing the colour’s perceived brightness. However, colours containing fluorescent dyes are, by nature, less resistant to the degrading effects of light and water. There are treatments that can be added to increase colour fastness and durability. To learn more about managing fluorescent colours, visit <a href="http://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone/Pantone.aspx?pg=20888">www.pantone.com/nylonbrights/colorfastness</a></p> <p><strong>Visit <a href="http://www.MatchPantoneColors.com" target="_blank">MatchPantoneColors.com</a> for starting dyestuff formulations and in-plant local technical support.</strong></p> <p><strong>PERFORMANCE DATA</strong></p> <p>Every PANTONE nylon brights dye lot is evaluated against a master digital standard and must pass both digital and visual evaluation. All colours are dyed in Nylon 6.6, a much improved fiber for light fastness and wash fastness over Nylon 6. <a href="/downloads/articles/pdfs/NylonBrights_TechnicalInfo.pdf" target="_blank">Click here</a> to download fastness standards data and ISO specifications, as well as dyer’s notes and suggested markets for using PANTONE nylon brights.</p>
