Pantone Formula Guide Coated & Uncoated

About This Item

The Pantone Formula Guide GP1601C is the latest edition of Pantone’s core spot-color reference for graphic design, printing, branding, and packaging.

This edition contains 2,614 Pantone spot colors, including 224 newly added colors, presented side-by-side on coated and uncoated paper. The two portable fan guides allow designers, printers, converters, brand owners, and production teams to evaluate, specify, communicate, and verify Pantone colors throughout the production process.

Rather than relying only on a monitor or digital color simulation, the Formula Guide provides a physical printed reference that can be used when discussing color with customers, suppliers, prepress departments, ink manufacturers, and printers.

What’s New in GP1601C

• 224 new Pantone colors
• 2,614 total spot colors
• Updated Pantone Graphics System color range
• Improved printing process for greater color accuracy
• New colors positioned at the front of the guides for quick identification

Designed for Real Production Work

The Formula Guide is more than a color-selection book. It provides a common physical reference that helps everyone involved in a project discuss the same Pantone color specification.

Use it for:

• Brand and corporate color specification
• Packaging design and print production
• Logo and marketing material development
• Spot-color selection and approval
• Customer color approvals
• Press checks
• Communication between designers, printers, converters, ink suppliers, and manufacturers

Coated and Uncoated References

Each color is shown on two commonly used paper stocks so users can compare how the same Pantone color may appear under different printing conditions:

• Coated: 100 lb / 168 gsm
• Uncoated: 80 lb / 118 gsm

The portable fan-deck format makes it practical for use in design studios, production departments, customer meetings, and pressrooms.

From Color Selection to Print Production

Pantone ink formulations are included to help printers and ink suppliers reproduce Pantone Spot Colors in production.

A built-in lighting indicator also helps users determine whether viewing conditions are appropriate for evaluating color—a frequently overlooked factor when comparing printed samples.

Who Uses the Pantone Formula Guide?

The GP1601C is particularly useful for professionals working in:

• Graphic design
• Packaging
• Commercial printing
• Flexographic printing
• Brand management
• Prepress
• Ink formulation
• Product design
• Industrial design
• Manufacturing

One Color Language Across the Supply Chain

A Pantone number only works as a communication standard when everyone involved is referring to the correct physical reference.

The Pantone Formula Guide GP1601C provides designers, customers, printers, and manufacturers with a shared reference for specifying and evaluating spot colors from the initial concept through final production.