How to Convert Pantone to Hex
Pantone is a global color language and industry standard tool used in the textile, printing, plastic, and design industries. Pantone has been considered the world's color authority for over 40 years. Photoshop and other graphics design programs have a Pantone swatch system to convert Pantone to hexadecimal codes. It is possible to manually convert Pantone to hexadecimal number if you have the Pantone Red-Green-Blue (RGB) color. Hexadecimal colors have a 16-base, six-digit number used in html coding for displaying Web pages in browsers.
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Get Red-Green-Blue (RGB) color from Pantone.
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Convert Pantone to hexadecimal using any color. In this example, it is: R=128, G=153, and B=0.
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Divide Red color, 128 by 16 (base of 16), which equals number 8 with no remainder. Because there is no remainder, use a placeholder of zero. Stringing these two values together, the Value of Red is 80 is how to convert Pantone to hexadecimal. First two digits of the hexadecimal number: #80.
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Green color equals 153. Divide 153 by 16 which equal 9.5625. First digit is 9. Multiply remainder of .5625 by 16 which equals 9. Stringing these two values together, the result is 99.
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Blue value is 0 with a remainder of 0. Stringing these two values yields, 00 for the last value of how to convert Pantone to hexadecimal.
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Combine numbers of R (80), G (99), and B (00) for the hexadecimal value of #809900, a neat lime green color.
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Tips & Warnings
Note: You have probably seen hexadecimals numbers with letters. Integers or remainders, 10 to 15, translate to the following: 10=A, 11=B, 12=C, 13=D, 14=E, and 15=F. For example, if the green color is 253. Divide 253 by 16 which equal 15.8125. Integer 15 translates to F. Remainder .8125 multiplied by 16 translates to 13. Thirteen translates to D, so you have FD for the two-digit Green color for how to convert Pantone to hexadecimal.
