Plastic Chip – Pantone Color of The Year 2022

Streamline Color Communication for Plastic Products, Hard Goods, and 3D-Printed Materials

KPQ-17-3938TCX

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

Pantone Plastic Chip – Pantone Color of The Year 2022