Color card is the nature of the color in a certain material (such as: paper, fabric, plastic, etc.) on the embodiment, used for color selection, comparison, communication, color is to achieve a unified standard within a certain range of tools.

As a textile industry practitioner dealing with color, these standard color cards you must know!

1, the PANTONE

Pantone color card (Pantone) should be textile, printing and dyeing practitioners contact the most color card, no one.

Pantone Carl roth, New Jersey, headquarters is located in the us, is a specialized development and research is known throughout the world for the authority of institutions, is also the colour system suppliers, many industries including printing and other color such as digital technology, textile, plastic, architecture and interior design professional color selection of language communication.

Pantone was bought in 1962 by Lawrence Herbert, the company's chairman, chairman and chief executive, as a small manufacturer of color cards for cosmetics companies. Herbert published a "Pantone System" color code in 1963. In late 2007, Pantone was acquired by another color service company, X-Rite, for $180 million.

The color card for the textile industry is Pantone TX card, which can be divided into Pantone TPX(paper card) and Pantone TCX (cotton card). Pantone C card and U card are also used frequently in the printing industry.

The annual Pantone Color of the Year has become the world's representative color!

2, COLOR O

Coloro is a revolutionary color application system developed by China textile information center and WGSN, a global fashion trend forecasting company.

Based on the century-old color methodology and the scientific application and improvement of more than 20 years, Coloro is introduced. Each color is encoded by seven digits in the color system of the 3D model. Each code represents a point that is the intersection of hue, lightness, and chroma. With this scientific system, 1.6 million colors can be defined, consisting of 160 shades, 100 lightness, and 100 chroma combinations.

3, DIC COLOR

DIC color card, originated from Japan, is specially used in industry, graphic design, packaging, paper printing, architectural coating, ink, textile, printing and dyeing, design and so on.

4, MUNSELL

The color card is named after the American colorist Albert H. Munsell (1858-1918). Munsell color system has been repeatedly revised by the National Bureau of Standards and the Optical Society of the United States, and has become one of the recognized standard color systems in the color field.

In 1905, Albert H. Munsell developed a widely accepted color order system, known as the Munsell Color System, which accurately describes colors. All the color collections described in the Munsell color space are called Munsell color solid, which looks like a twisted, eccentric sphere.

5, replication

NCS was first studied in 1611 and is now the national standard in Sweden, Norway, Spain and other countries. It is the most widely used color system in Europe. It describes colors the way the eye sees them. The surface color is defined in the NCS color card and a color number is given.

NCS color cards can determine the basic properties of a color by color number, such as blackness, chroma, whiteness, and hue. NCS color card number describes the visual properties of the color, and has nothing to do with the pigment formula and optical parameters.

6, RAL

RAL, Roulska, Germany. The German European standard is also widely used internationally.

When RAL entered the colour business in 1927, he created a unified language that established standard statistics and nunciations for colourful colours, which were widely understood and applied worldwide. The 4-digit RAL color has been the color standard for 70 years and has grown to more than 200.

7, CSI textile color card

CSI Color Handbook is the market leader in textile solutions. A company that can provide solutions for all stages of textile production, from product design to final textiles. The technical and application expertise of this product is widely recognized by the entire industry. Work closely with textile retailers and brands and have a complete global network of major textile manufacturers. Provide accurate and colorful color management tools for enterprises and trade retailers in the textile supply chain (CSI is affiliated to DYSTAR)

8, YKK zipper color card

YKK color card is a special color card for YKK zipper and YKK products. There are six pages of YKK color card, and 582 colors are cataloged. Each page has an average distribution of 100 color positions, and 18 color positions of the new YKK color card are vacant in these six pages. The other 582 colors are all the actual samples of the cloth!

9, Angao Archroma cotton color card

Archroma Cotton Color Card is a new synthetic color standard for clothing, textiles and soft home designers and product developers. The color card contains 4320 color numbers in six color systems, with NFC chip, which can be scanned by mobile phone to get detailed color data, and each color number is equipped with the recommended formula of reactive, disperse and acid three dyes.

10. SCOTDIC cotton color cards

This SCOTDIC cotton

The card provides 2300 different SCOTDIC colors. Each color block is 1.5* 4cm in size. Each color block is backed by a self-adhesive adhesive that can be freely torn off and then glued back on when the color is matched. It is widely used in garment design, textile printing and dyeing, color proofing, color checking and import and export textile trade, etc.

11. Japanese Sanyama Yarn Color Card

Sanyan color card in Japan has become a widely used color reference book in the hosiery industry. Every year, customers use the colors in the color catalog of Sanyan color as a reference model for product color design. It has been revised into 365 colorful and showy multi-purpose colors, which are widely used in the hosiery textile industry.