Plastic Chips—Pantone Color of The Year 2022
Streamline color communication for plastic products, hard goods, and 3D-printed materials
Pantone’s Plastic Chips allow seamless color matching between plastic products, print materials, hard goods, and textiles. Now available in Pantone’s Color of the Year 2022, PANTONE® 17-3938 Very Peri, a dynamic new periwinkle blue hue with a vivifying violet-red undertone that blends the faithfulness and constancy of blue with the energy and excitement of red. Graphic, product, and fashion designers can use Pantone’s Plastic Chips as a standard for visualizing, communicating, specifying, and controlling color for consumer products in plastic and mixed materials. Over 4,000 colors correspond with Pantone Graphics, and Fashion, Home + Interiors systems.
- Ensure consistent color in plastic products, trimmings, soft goods, and print materials
- Available in all Pantone Matching System® (PMS) Graphics colors and Fashion, Home + Interiors (FHI) colors
- High-density polypropylene plastic in tiered thickness with glossy and matte finishes
- Each chip sold individually
- Large 3” x 1.9” chips are sized for measurement by a spectrophotometer
Features:
- Made of polypropylene, the industry-standard plastic reference
- Chips are large enough to be measured by a spectrophotometer
- Two tiers of thickness, 1mm and 2mm, for accurate color visualization
- Double-sided with both glossy and matte finishes
- Key ring hole in top right corner allows chips to be organized into palettes
Colors:
- Sold as individual colors, each identified with a Pantone Color Reference for our PMS (Graphics) or FHI systems
- Each chip includes corresponding pigment formulations for manufacturing accuracy
- Can be specified to any Pantone Graphics and Fashion, Home + Interiors Systems colors to match plastics to printed materials, fabric, leather, and cosmetics
- Can be produced to any custom color developed by the Pantone Color Institute™ (PCI)
Application:
- Enables color choices to be communicated in a plastic medium
- Use for palette development, color approval, and production of plastic products
- Use for any product made of colored plastic, including beauty, food and beverage, consumer electronics, fashion accessories, hard home, toys, medical devices, and more
- Provides the quality control team with a reference for all colors being used in production
