Pantone GoeGuide Coated

Pantone GoeGuide Coated with 2058 new solid colors. It is designed to complement and expand, not replaced the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM. Includes ink mixing formulas and RGB values.

 

Get the colors missing from your Pantone Formula Guide with the Pantone Goe Guide. With 2,058 colors Pantone Goe provides you with nearly twice as many spot, CMYK, sRGB, and HTML colors options as the original PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM. That means no more big gaps between colors or jumping to the back of the book in search of a suitable shade leaving you with a nice, smooth color progression that will help you quickly find the right color , so you will get back to the business of designing.

The PANTONE GoeGuide coated is a 294 page fan guide used to select, specify and communicate the 2,058 new solid colors from the PANTONE Goe™ System. Chromatically arranged with intuitive unique numbering system, colors are printed on a #1 grade coated stock. Ink mixing formulas are provided for blending the colors, as well as sRGB values to promote viewing consistency across monitors and Web pages. For digital color selection and palette creation, package includes download access to myPANTONE palettes software.

PANTONE Goe System vs. PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM QUESTIONS
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1. Does the PANTONE Goe System replace the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM?
No! The PANTONE Goe System will complement and expand, not replace, the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM. With 45 years of equity, the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM has been used to create thousands of brand identities. Therefore, we fully expect that the two systems will co-exist for the foreseeable future; both systems will continue to be supported by Pantone and our industry partners.

2. Does that mean that designers and printers should have both systems?
Yes. (See #3) The PANTONE Goe Guide provides 2,058 new colors. The PANTONE
MATCHING SYSTEM provides 1,114 colors and line extensions such as PANTONE COLOR BRIDGE® that will continue to be industry standards.

3. How many colors are in each system?
• The PANTONE Goe Guide is composed of 2,058 new solid colors.
• The PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM has 1,114 solid colors.

4. What about special effect colors like metallic, pastel and fluorescent colors?
• The PANTONE Goe Guides does not include any special effect colors.
• The PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM publications have 14 metallic and 14 fluorescent colors.
• Pantone also offers a METALLIC FORMULA GUIDE with 301 colors on coated stock and a PASTEL FORMULA GUIDE with 154 colors on coated and uncoated stock. Both products were upgraded with new colors in 2006.

5. Are both systems printed on the same paper?
• No. PANTONE Goe Guide is printed on 100 lb coated offset text.
• The PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM Publications are printed on various weight papers depending on the paper finish; Coated = 80 lb gloss cover stock, Uncoated = 90 lb smooth offset cover stock and Matte =100 lb matte cover stock.

6. Do the papers meet Gracol specifications?
Since PANTONE Goe Colors and PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM Colors are spot colors, the Gracol specification is not relevant. However, both systems are printed on #1 grade paper (see #5).

7. Are any of the color numbers the same?
• No. To avoid confusion, the PANTONE Goe Guide use a new three-part numbering system separated by hyphens to locate the color within the publication. The first number refers to the color family anchored by the full strength color; these numbers range from 1 to 165. The second number refers to the page within the color family. Some families have only one page, while other families
may have two to five pages; the second set of numbers will range from 1 to 5. The third number refers to the color position on the page, starting with one at the top and seven at the bottom; therefore, these numbers will range from 1 to 7. Finally, the “C” stands for printing on coated stock.
• The PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM Publications use three or four-digit numbers without hyphens.
• EXAMPLE:
o PANTONE Goe 4-1-4 C (must use the hyphens) is a yellow found in color family #4, page #1 of the color family and in the 4th position of the page. You will find this color on page 8 C of the GoeGuide.
o PANTONE 414 C (no hyphens) is a gray found on page 48 of the coated Formula Guide.

8. Will Pantone provide a cross-reference of the numbers in the two systems?
No. The numbers are different and the inks are mixed from different bases; so even colors that appear similar may differ slightly. However, when using the myPANTONE palettes software you can select a color from the Color Wheel or plug in known RGB values. Then by switching back and forth between the Goe Library and the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM solid color libraries you will see the “closest” color in each library.

9. How will my printer know I have specified a Goe Color? Will they be able to print? By the color # (see #9) and providing a PANTONE palette card with Goe chips attached. However, if your printer does not have a GoeGuide, they will need the ink mixing formula and a color sample to reference. They will also need to obtain the PANTONE Goe Ink Mixing Bases needed to mix that color or obtain a pre-mixed ink from their Pantone-licensed ink supplier.

10. What is the color gamut of the PANTONE Goe System versus the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM?
Both the PANTONE Goe Guide and the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM provide a large gamut of available colors. Compared to each other, they encompass almost identical color spaces. The major difference between the two systems is that Goe defines almost twice the number of identified colors within that gamut. A
more important point is that both Goe and the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM are capable of defining and printing a far greater number of colors than what is achievable in basic 4-color CMYK printing.