In Illustrator or InDesign, when you go to create a new swatch, you have a number
of reference guides to pick from. So, here I am in InDesign, when I start
making a new color swatch under Color Mode, when I click that pull down, I get
a really long list of possibilities. So, what are all of those for?
So, you might be curious about what they refer to.
ANPA is used in the newspaper environment.
DIC which is created by Dainippon Ink is used in Asia.
And it has some interesting components. It has what they called theme series
including Japanese Traditional Colors. So, those are colors that have been used
throughout history in Japan. And French Traditional Colors and Chinese
Traditional Colors. So, that's sort of an interesting
approach to create sort of a theme, a dedicated pallet for certain types of projects.
FOCOLTONE is actually not a spot reference guide, it's a process reference
guide, meaning it uses CMYK ink. And you'll see that used predominately in Britain.
HSK is a German reference system, and it has both spot and process components
available to you in Illustrator and InDesign.
And you'll notice that there's HKS E, K, N, and Z, and for each one of those there
are two components spot, and process. So, the E is for continuous stationery.
The K is for gloss art paper. The N is for natural paper, meaning sort
of standard stock, and then Z is for newsprint.
So, what this implies is that the recipes are a little bit different, in order to
get better rendition on these different kinds of paper.
And then of course Pantone, even though we see it used widely in the US, it's not
used just in the US, it's really used around the world.
And there is more then one Pantone book, so when you look at the pull down in
Illustrator or InDesign you have whole list of Pantone possibilities.
And it's important to know that, not all of them really refer to spot color.
At least some of this is obvious, the Pantone+CMYK Coated, and Uncoated,
clearly those are process guides. The Color Bridge is a really nice
reference, because it gives you sort of best of both worlds.
It doesn't have every single Pantone+ spot color in it, it has a huge subset of
them and it gives you something really valuable.
It gives you the spot color next to the closes CMYK equivalent.
So, as you're creating a job and you're trying to judge, do I want to print this
spot or maybe I can get away with printing it process, you can compare
right there. The metallic coated, of course those are
spots the metallic inks, and then the pastels and neon's coated and uncoated
those are spot inks. There's a new kind of metallic in the
Pantone+ series called the Premium Metallics.
And they're much finer ground pigments, so they're a smoother coating.
And they give a more uniformed appearance.
And then, good old fashioned Pantone Solid Coated.
When you're looking for a spot color, that's the one you're going to choose.
And then Solid Uncoated, and keep in mind that coated and uncoated just refer to
the paper substrates. And these different libraries within
InDesign and Illustrator are trying to mimic how that ink's going to look on a
coated stock, versus and uncoated stock. So, it's the same ink, it's just trying
to help you visualized on screen how it's going to print.
And finally TOYO those are used in Japan TOYO 94 uses CMYK values for onscreen rendering.
It's not a processed book, it's a spot book, but in trying to show you the ink
on screen it's looking at CMYK values. So, you'll find that that's sort of like
the old Pantone values in older Adobe applications, it's close but it's not exact.
And in the later releases, use Lab values to show on screen.
And finally TRUMATCH, is a purely process reference, so if you know you're always
going to print process jobs, TRUMATCH is a great resource.
Because then you have a printed component that you can compare, and then you can
invoke that from your pull downs, as your adding colors to your InDesign, or
Illustrator documents. So, you have a wide range to choose from,
in this course, I'm going to concentrate on Pantone, because that's the most
commonly used resource. But the same rules apply regardless of
which resource you're using.