{"id":34340,"date":"2016-04-01T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creativemarket.com\/blog\/?p=34340"},"modified":"2024-04-10T23:39:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T06:39:06","slug":"how-pantone-creates-unique-colors-for-celebrities-and-public-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creativemarket.com\/blog\/how-pantone-creates-unique-colors-for-celebrities-and-public-figures","title":{"rendered":"How Pantone Creates Unique Colors for Celebrities and Public Figures"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pantone’s branding division—the Color Institute<\/a>—has created the official colors for some of the world’s most iconic brands: they chose Tiffany’s aqua, Gap’s navy, Barbie’s pink, and every color used by the Army<\/a>.\"Pantone_Chart\"From USAGDN<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Hiring them costs “tens of thousands of dollars,†though, so they’re almost never used by individuals. Until recently, only one person had his own Pantone color: hip-hop tycoon Jay Z, who enlisted them to create a pearl blue he’s used in his personal branding ever since.<\/p>\n

\"article-9179_2Jay-Z with his Pantone-colored GMC Yukon. From Scalemodels.su<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

But now there’s a second: Real estate CEO Sherry Chris, who hired them to define one shade of her favorite color, hot pink, as her own.<\/p>\n

\"SherryFrom the New York Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

So, how does Pantone decide on a color? First, they ask the client to bring in an object whose color they like the look of.<\/p>\n

“Jay Z brought in a piece of his old motorcycle,†says Carmine Matarazzo, the company’s technical director. Chris brought in her favorite scarf.<\/p>\n

From there, the Institute analyzes the object, looks at the company’s image, and generates hundreds of swatches of potential colors. From there, as production designer Yarrow Cheney puts it<\/a>, “It was sort of a process of narrowing it down to that one … color that represented the spirit for the [project].â€<\/p>\n

Once the process is done, Pantone gives the client swatches and samples of it, generates CMYK values to make sure it can be perfectly duplicated in print, and assigns it a unique number in their catalog—Sherry Chris Pink is SC 2011.<\/p>\n

\"sherrystationery3\"From the New York Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

If you have some spare “tens of thousands of dollars†lying around and want to order a color, here’s the form<\/a>.<\/p>\n

…Or, honestly, you can probably do the same thing at home.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pantone’s branding division—the Color Institute—has created the official colors for some of the world’s most iconic brands: they chose Tiffany’s aqua, Gap’s navy, Barbie’s pink, and every color used by the Army.From USAGDN Hiring them costs “tens of thousands of dollars,†though, so they’re almost never used by individuals. 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