Description:

New skin color guide.

 

Technical Specifications:

Scientifically accurate undertones and tones skin color.

This guide was created by scientifically measuring thousands of actual skin tones across the full spectrum of human skin types. Specially formulated to be the closest physical representations of skin colors, the library is a comprehensive visual reference of human skin tones for use in any market where skin colors are relevant.

Ideal for designers and product developers in their workflow. For use in:

  • Photography
  • Dolls and action figures
  • Medical base creation or product matching
  • Underpinning and foundation garments in fashion
  • Graphic design, printing and packaging that show realistic skin colour

The guide is in order of fair to dark colour with four hue groups that have an ascending or descending order of skin tones. Each colour is labelled by a four-digit alphanumeric number – the first two numbers represent the hue or undertone and the last two represent the tone, which is the lightness and darkness of the skin.

Key features:

  • 110 accurate human skin colours, numbered from 1Y01 SP to 4R15 SP
  • Large-size swatch with a central aperture for easy colour evaluation and specification
  • Colour index included; colours formatted fair to light
  • Mock perforation on the reverse of the swatch to share colour
  • Best colour match when evaluated under D65 (Daylight 6500K) lighting
  • Digital values available in Pantone Color Manager Software

Each guide comes with a free download of Pantone Color Manager software, allowing you to access digital values in CMYK or RGB.