{"product_id":"pantone-essential-6-guides-complete-2026","title":"PANTONE ESSENTIAL 6 GUIDES COMPLETE 2026","description":"Maximize your creativity with the Essentials Guide Set, bringing six of Pantone’s top-selling graphics tools together in one compact, portable carrying case. Featuring the Formula Guide, Color Bridge Guide Set, and CMYK Guide, this affordable starter kit gives designers, students, and print professionals access to 8,069 market-driven spot, spot-to-process, and process colours, including 224 new graphics colours. Use it to find inspiration, communicate colour clearly, verify colour accuracy, and translate Pantone Spot Colors into CMYK, HTML, or RGB values with confidence. The streamlined protective case keeps all six handheld fan decks organized, accessible, and ready for collaboration—whether in the classroom, studio, stakeholder meeting, or at press check.  \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\n- Access 8,069 spot, spot-to-process, and four-colour process colors in one complete graphics set for broader creative flexibility\u003cbr\u003e\r\n- Get the Formula Guide, Color Bridge Guide Set, and CMYK Guide together in one cost-effective bundle—now with 224 vibrant new colours added to both the Formula Guide and Color Bridge Guide \u003cbr\u003e\r\n- Communicate and evaluate colour more accurately across design, print, packaging, and digital workflows \u003cbr\u003e\r\n- Translate Pantone Spot Colors into CMYK, HTML, and RGB values to support both physical and digital design work \u003cbr\u003e\r\n- Keep six handheld fan decks protected, organized, and ready for use wherever you are\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nFEATURES:\u003cbr\u003e\r\n- Features the Pantone Formula Guide, Color Bridge Guide Set, and CMYK Guide\u003cbr\u003e\r\n- Six portable, handheld fan decks in a convenient carrying case\u003cbr\u003e\r\n- Printed on the most used paper stock weights: 100 lb coated (180 gsm) and 80 lb uncoated (118 gsm)\u003cbr\u003e\r\n- Lighting indicator pages demonstrate when lighting conditions are suitable for colour evaluation \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nCOLOURS:\u003cbr\u003e\r\n- 224 new trend-driven graphics colours added for more inspiration\u003cbr\u003e\r\n- Complete collection of all 2,614 traditional spot colours, 2,587 spot-to-process colours, and an additional 2,868 four-colour process colours in the CMYK Guides\u003cbr\u003e\r\n- Each colour displayed with its coordinating number and ink formulation or values\u003cbr\u003e\r\n- Colours arranged in chromatic format with new colour pages at the front of each Formula and Color Bridge Guide\u003cbr\u003e\r\n- Use throughout the design process, from inspiration to press check\u003cbr\u003e\r\n- Ideal for comparing spot-to-process colour when CMYK printing is required\u003cbr\u003e\r\n- Use for print materials, branding and logos, packaging, digital design, and animation\u003cbr\u003e\r\n- Offers 8.069 total spot and four-colour process colours at a value price\u003cbr\u003e\r\n- Ink formulations help printers accurately achieve Pantone Spot Colours on printed materials\u003cbr\u003e\r\n- New ink formulations are suitable for coating during print production and are now eco-friendly\u003cbr\u003e\r\n- Compact size travels from school to studio to stakeholder meetings, press checks, and more\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nGordon Harris is New Zealand’s Authorised Pantone Distributor.  We have been proudly supplying Pantone products to the NZ design, advertising and graphic arts markets since 1975.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nABOUT PANTONE\u003cbr\u003e\r\nUnleash your passion with 112 new colours (1845 colours in total). \u003cbr\u003e\r\nExperience a broad selection of high trending hues that will set your creativity free.\u003cbr\u003e\r\nNew colours printed using a uniform ink film thickness, making them easily matched on press.\u003cbr\u003e\r\nComplements the Plus Series libraries of sizzling metallic, hot neons, cool pastels and process colours. \u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nIn 1963, Lawrence Herbert, Pantone’s founder, created an innovative system of identifying, matching and communicating colours to solve problems associated with producing accurate colour matches in the graphic arts community.  His insight that the spectrum is seen and interpreted differently by each individual led to the innovation of the Pantone Matching System®, a book of standardised colour in fan format.\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nPantone Inc. is now the world-renowned authority on colour and provider of colour systems for the selection and accurate communication of colour across a wide variety of industries.  The Pantone® name is known worldwide as the standard language for colour communication.","brand":"PANTONE","offers":[{"title":"UNIT","offer_id":44209918378043,"sku":"PAGPG301C","price":1650.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/7299\/6411\/files\/PAGPG301C.jpg?v=1789600280","url":"https:\/\/www.gordonharris.co.nz\/products\/pantone-essential-6-guides-complete-2026","provider":"Gordon Harris - The Art \u0026 Graphic Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}