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| COLOUR | Pantone™ C denotes coated paper value. U denotes uncoated paper value. | CMYK | RGB | #HEX |
| Dark Green | Pantone 5815C / 5815U | C 35 M 30 Y 100 K 75 | rgb(85, 80, 37) | #555025 |
| Dark Red | Pantone 7421C / 222U | C 18 M 100 Y 45 K 67 | rgb(101, 29, 50) | #651D32 |
| Dark Purple | Pantone 7448C / 7447U | C 67 M 79 Y 24 K 59 | rgb(75, 56, 76) | #4B384C |
| Dark Blue | Pantone 548C / 548U | C 100 M 21 Y 28 K 76 | rgb(0, 61, 76) | #003D4C |
| Dark Brown | Pantone 476C / 476U | C 30 M 71 Y 75 K 81 | rgb(78, 54, 41) | #4E3629 |
| Mid Green | Pantone 7495C / 583U | C 42 M 5 Y 98 K 29 | rgb(143, 153, 62) | #8F993E |
| Mid Red | Pantone 7622C / 1807U | C 0 M 97 Y 89 K 45 | rgb(147, 39, 44) | #93272C |
| Mid Purple | Pantone 2607C / 2607U | C 83 M 99 Y 0 K 2 | rgb(80, 7, 120) | #500778 |
| Mid Blue | Pantone 295C / 295U | C100 M 69 Y 8 K 54 | rgb(0, 40, 85) | #002855 |
| Stone | Pantone 7527C / 7527U | C 3 M 4 Y 14 K 8 | rgb(214, 210, 196) | #D6D2C4 |
| Bright Green | Pantone 390C / 388U | C 27 M 0 Y 100 K 3 | rgb(181, 189, 0) | #B5BD00 |
| Bright Red | Pantone 199C / 199U | C 0 M 100 Y:72 K 0 | rgb(213, 0, 50) | #D50032 |
| Bright Blue | Pantone 7711C / 3135U | C 98 M 0 Y 28 K 4 | rgb(0, 151, 169) | #0097A9 |
| Bright Pink | Pantone 215C / 214U | C 6 M 100 Y 26 K 24 | rgb(172, 20, 90) | #AC145A |
| Light Green | Pantone 7493C / 7493U | C 25 M 4 Y 44 K 3 | rgb(187, 197, 146) | #BBC592 |
| Light Red | Pantone 179C / 1795U | C 0 M 87 Y 85 K 0 | rgb(224, 60, 49) | #E03C31 |
| Light Purple | Pantone 5225C / 5225U | C 8 M 25 Y 4 K 14 | rgb(198, 176, 188) | #C6B0BC |
| Light Blue | Pantone 550C / 550U | C 42 M 7 Y 8 K 8 | rgb(141, 185, 202) | #8DB9CA |
| Yellow | Pantone 7408C / 7404U | C 0 M 29 Y 100 K 0 | rgb(246, 190, 0) | #F6BE00 |
| Orange | Pantone 716C / 716U | C 0 M 61 Y 99 K 0 | rgb(234, 118, 0) | #EA7600 |
| Grey | Pantone Warm Grey 8CP/8U | C 17 M 24 Y 25 K 49 | rgb(140, 130, 121) | #8C8279 |
| Blue Celeste | Pantone 635C / 635U | C 30 M 0 Y 7 K 0 | rgb(164, 219, 232) | #A4DBE8 |
| IOE Blue (for IOE use only) | Pantone 286C / 286 U | C 100 M 75 Y 0 K 0 | rgb(36, 80, 154) | #24509A |
The Pantone™ colour matching system refers to a set of colours, each with their own unique number/code. Used throughout industry as a standard for specifiying colours, particularly for printing.
CMYK refers to cyan, magenta, yellow and black and is a model which defines a colour by its make up of four colour inks. Professional printing processes, and colour office printers typically use CMYK inks or toners to simulate all colours, printed in a very fine overlapping dot pattern.
RGB stands for red, green and blue and refers to a colour mixing system combining the three primary colours of light. Use for online display and in Office documents to get the exact colour you need. RGB is converted to CMYK on sending to print which can result in a colour shift.
HEX values are an alternative way of expressing RGB values in a shortened form. HEX values can be used in CSS and HTML and other software to control the colour of elements in screen based media.
Colour in summary
Think about the range if colours you would like to use. Start with one colour and work from there.
Colour themes
- Analogous: One main colour and colours from either side of it on the colour wheel eg. mid purple, bright pink and light purple
- Triad: Three colours from equidistant points on the colour wheel eg. bright red, dark blue, blue celeste
- Complimentary: Complimentary or opposite colours from either side of the colour wheel eg. mid purple and yellow
- Monochromatic: Different tints of a single colour
- Achromatic: No colour – just using black, greys and white