What is PMS

[bgcont]

Hello everyone.
I dont fully understand what is PMS. It is squares in bottom right corner of DC logo canvas. Made a search in forum, but found nothing. Sorry if it is already written.

[ZukiH]

PMS - Pantone Matching System

its to show the pantones you are using

[rinaldidesigns]

you need to load PMS swatches in illustrator(swatch libraries).....
Pantone is the only way to get accurate color control....designers and printers have pantone swatch books, that let you see a pantone color printed on coated,uncoated paper(the swatch books can be ordered through pantone)

what you see on a computer screen, color wise, can be WAAAAYYYYY different when printed;-)

[luv4luvly]

this sounds greek to me, i really need to dig more.

[zookey]

one detail - Pantone colors can be coated or uncoated. for example, PMS 320 C or PMS 320 U.

[Chung Dha]

PMS is very essential thing to know as a designer. Only to save cost in printing if your using less than 4 colors. However if you use more than 4 colors you can better stay with CMYK.

[KAC12]

If you use PMS colors primarily it is very helpful to have the pantone books including the pantone tints book.

[brownbair]

Universal colours used to control the outcome of the colours when you print. It makes your end product more predictable and less of a guessing game.

[ereis]

Is it required to use the PMS squares in our submitted designs?

[MariMiller]

I'm kind of surprised you're at this site without knowing what pms colors are...kind of an important thing for a designer to know...

[r1ck_art]

A designer must know that his name must have PMS, CMYK, RGB

[barrywh]

bgcont,

here's a good reference starting point:

Pantone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pantone colors are used primarily in the printing industry to help take the "guesswork" out of what the final product will look like on different paper stock. I used to have a Pantone color swatch book that gave you the equivalent cmyk and rgb values of each Pantone color available... It was an indispensable graphics tool at the time. Now Illustrator does all that for you. Just load up your color swatches and go nuts...