Blooming view

The color of 2014, the American company Pantone called Radiant Orchid 18-3224. And if less officially, "shining orchid." And more specifically, lilac – purple

Passing the gallery

Magazine: N4 (192) 2014

The color of 2014, the American company Pantone called Radiant Orchid 18-3224. And if less officially, "shining orchid." And more specifically, lilac – purple

In any case, the main thing is to agree. In the polygraphy, confusion and vacillation continued until the middle of the 20th century, until all were settled by Lawrence Herbert. He owned a small printing house and was constantly faced with the fact that once the color invented it was difficult to repeat when he needed it again. Difficult because there are no standards. And Herbert developed the Pantone Matching System, which contained the basic standards of color that are very easy to navigate. Now the system includes more than a thousand samples of different colors, produced in the form of fans (in common parlance they are called pantones), and it has long been used not only in printing.

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