The CAPSURE™ with Formula Guide set bundles the complete Graphics & Fashion, Home + Interiors color libraries with all 2,390 Pantone® Spot colors.

One Formula Guide Coated fan deck, one Formula Guide Uncoated fan deck, one palm-sized digital color measurement device.

Overview:

Own the gamut of Graphics & Fashion and Home + Interiors color libraries on one compact color measurement device, plus all 2,390 Pantone® Spot colors in this dynamic bundle. Use the innovative CAPSURE™ color matching tool to measure and match color on the spot from any surface, material, or fabric to your choice of Pantone® Library. This versatile set makes it easy to accurately translate any color inspiration the user finds into an achievable color. The Pantone® Formula Guide provides a universal reference for brand guidelines and spot color printing, ensuring consistency in projects like signage, packaging, logos and branding, marketing materials, and more. Elevate your workflow from inspiration through production with the CAPSURE™ with Formula Guide set.

Features:

• Set includes Pantone® CAPSURE™ device and Pantone® Formula Guide Coated & Uncoated two-guide set
• CAPSURE™ fits in the palm of your hand, and makes collecting and accurately matching color inspiration simple and fun
• Handheld Formula Guide fan decks provide a portable reference
• Printed on commonly used paper stock weights: 100 lb coated (148 gsm) and 80 lb (118 gsm)uncoated
• Lighting Indicator page is included to determine when lighting conditions are suitable for color evaluation

Colors:

• 229 new, trend- and market-relevant graphics colors added
• Pantone Formula Guide includes 2,390 total spot colors and provides the largest color gamut in the Pantone® Graphics system
• Each color is displayed with its corresponding number and ink formulation
• CAPSURE™ comes pre-loaded with over 10,000 Pantone® Colors
• Formula Guide produced with an enhanced printing process for improved color accuracy
• New base inks used now allow for coating in the print production process, a key requirement for packaging
• New base inks are more eco-friendly
• Index in the back of the guides provides the numeric location for each color
• Tolerance aim < 2.0 ∆E00 to Pantone® master standard reference data

Applications:

• CAPSURE™ updates automatically and synchronizes with popular design applications so that users can design within their typical workflows
• Use CAPSURE™ to collect and accurately match color inspiration, and to establish color harmonies and custom palettes
• Pantone Formula Guide’s ink formulations help printers accurately achieve Pantone® Spot colors on printed materials
• Formula Guide is used around the globe for communicating consistent color throughout workflow and supply chain
• Bring Color to Life, Digitally – Learn how Pantone® Connect for Adobe® Creative Cloud® allows you to take your physical Pantone® colors into your digital workflow through Adobe® Creative Cloud® (InDesign®, Photoshop®, and Illustrator®).

The new CMYK guide offers new unique identification and better printing consistency. This newly refreshed CMYK guide is a must-have for designers working in digital, print and packaging. 

New features:

• More colors – 2,868, that is 700 more colors than our Pantone Matching System (PMS) Guides
• The Pantone CMYK guide offers more of what designers have asked for, namely additional in-between colors. These are the colors between two existing Pantone colors that help fill in the gaps and provide more unique offering
• The new CMYK guide makes it easy to identify colors that do not have a close PMS equivalent. An asterisk is located next to the color to identify that the color has a PMS equivalent
• Color without an asterisk are unique CMYK colors, and are without a close PMS match
• Guides are produced to exacting G7 specifications, which ensures that the colors can be reproduced more consistently in real world printing conditions