Purple is purple.
I wonder why it is that Pantone selects Textile colors for their color of the year?
Especially considering this one doesnât have a Solid Coated equivalent (they rarely do anyway.)
Always been a puzzlement to me.
R.I.P. Prince
⊠great⊠I have one client that always insists on using the âcolor of the yearâ so they appear hip. Iâll be getting the call next week âWhy havenât you been using ultra violet?â.
I canât seem to explain to them that itâs BS that Pantone makes up so they get free publicity.
itâs probably because they want to push that new Pantone Textile set that costs as much as a yearâs worth of rent for most people
The textile set isnât new.
For more than a decade, Iâve been dealing with the wonderful people who think they need to spec textile colors for fabric banners.
Please donât.
If you are not buying bolts and bolts of fabric for large runs of soft goods, you donât need a textile book.
Same goes for the plastics book. The quantity of plastic you would have to buy in order to spec a specific pantone would probably fill your house.
Oh, didnât realize that had been around. I honestly thought a color matching system for fabrics was a new thing they were pushing on the industry.
Though that plastic set is actually great for packaging. It comes with formulas and can save weeks/months in color matching with a plastic house.
Iâve yet to get a client to understand though that they canât buy just one widget in a Pantone plastics color. You have to buy 1000 lbs of them.
Yeah, custom plastic order minimums are real⊠really only reserved for the brands can meet those minimums, and not just on the initial order quantity, but reorder quantity too. I recently finished a beverage project that used those widgets (assuming thatâs what your referring to), and thankfully the stock plastic color options worked.
Whatâs even worse are the minimums on those custom colored tabs on canned beverages. Youâd need something like a 5 million unit order.
Oh, a widget can be anything.
A custom color Happ button usually but could be custom t-molding or interactive gaming pieces or any number of other things you wouldnât use outside of the one application for which it is specâd.