Pantone Validated

  Pantone is a company that was founded in 1962 by Lawrence Herbert and used to create color cards for cosmetics. Lawrence Herbert was an employee at a printing company called M & J Levine Advertising. He used his chemistry skills to systematize the inks and colors used by the company and, after buying it from its employers, just one year later in 1963, he developed the first color matching system.

Nowadays, Pantone is a limited liability company based in the United States, in Carlstadt, New Jersey. In 2007, it was bought by X-Rite, a manufacturer of color measurement and management products. Then, in 2012, X-Rite was purchased by the Danaher Corporation.

    If you work in a field that works with designers or printing systems, you've probably heard about Pantone.  The Pantone Matching System is a large database of standard colors, or a universal color system if you prefer. Pantone colors are identified through fixed numbers in the form of Pantone X or PMS X, where X is the number allocated to the color to which you are referring to.

 example: think about the designers of Coca Cola and their company's specific red color (in Pantone, it's 2347c). Imagine what would happen if the designers created a new logo using the company's traditional color, and, when they would send the new bottle labels to the printing machines, those printing machines would use a different red color. It wouldn't be the same, wouldn't it? It might affect not only the company's brand but also their income, because people are used to quickly identify Coca Cola by its specific crimson red color.

In domains related to design or printing, that rely on color-critical decisions, knowing the exact colors used is of the utmost importance. As a consequence, the Pantone Matching System, which offers a universal color language, is widely used by designers, producers, brands, and manufacturers from various markets such as graphics, fashion, packaging, architecture, cosmetics, industrial design, furniture, consumer goods, corporate branding, and so on

 Pantone Validated is a certification that tells you whether an electronic device complies with the color standards from the Pantone Matching System. By electronic devices, we understand displays such as those used by computers, laptops, TVs, projectors.

At the moment, there are not many manufacturers that offer Pantone Validated displays, but their number is surely going to increase. For now, the companies listed as selling Pantone Validated displays (stand-alone screens or integrated displays) are Acer, ASUS (including some devices from the Republic of Gamers lineup).

Further information visit Pantone website!!!!