GP1601BCOY26 PANTONE FORMULA GUIDE COATED UNCOATED 2026

Our best-selling guide for design inspiration, color specification, and printing accuracy is now available as a limited edition to celebrate the Pantone Color of the Year 2026. This special edition coated and uncoated set features a beautiful soft-touch cover in PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer, a lofty white whose aerated presence acts as a whisper of calm in a noisy world. A billowy and ethereal hue, PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer is a conscious statement of simplification in a frenetic society rediscovering the value of measured consideration and quiet reflection. Similar to a blank canvas, PANTONE 11-4201 Cloud Dancer signifies our desire for a fresh start—opening up space for creativity and allowing our imagination to wander so that new insights and bold ideas can emerge and take shape. Inside you’ll find a full page of Cloud Dancer, more about why we selected the color for 2026, and a complete history of past Pantone Colors of the Year.

Integration with Pantone® Connect for Adobe Creative Cloud allows you to access over 15,000 Pantone Colors in every Pantone Library. Take all of your physical Pantone Colors into the digital workflows of your favorite apps, such as InDesign®, Photoshop®, and Illustrator®, and ensure color consistency, accuracy, and from-anywhere-access. Securely save and store the colors you want in the cloud for better, streamlined sharing and collaboration.

• Application

  • Use for inspiration and production in designing logos, branding and marketing materials, packaging, and for additional applications such as architecture, industrial design, and manufacturing
  • Ink formulations help printers accurately achieve Pantone Spot colors on printed materials
  • Used to communicate consistent color throughout workflow and supply chain around the world

    Features

    • Helps ensure consistent color reproduction in branding, logos, marketing, packaging and other graphic design applications on a range of different materials
    • Portable, handheld fan decks provide easy on-the-go reference
    • Versatile end-to-end tool for everything from design inspiration to press check
    • Printed on most commonly used paper stock weights: 100 lb (168 gsm) coated and 80 lb uncoated (118 gsm)
    • Lighting indicator page demonstrates when lighting conditions are suitable for proper color evaluation
    • Considered the ultimate tool for inspiring, matching and communicating color to those in graphic design, digital design, product design and printing

    Colors

    • 224 new, on-trend, market-relevant graphics colors added plus 5 new Basic Colors
    • Includes 2,390 total Colors with the largest gamut in the Pantone Graphics System
    • New Colors are contained in the front of the guide
    • Enhanced printing process provides improved color accuracy
    • Pantone Colors displayed with their corresponding numbers and ink formulations
    • Index in back of guide provides numeric location for each color
    • Tolerance aim < 2.0 ∆E00 to Pantone master standard reference data CU Books