How Do I Convert Pantone 320 to RGB?

Accurate colors are important in graphic design and other fields.

Pantone is a design company that has developed the Pantone Matching System, a color standardization system for use in various fields. The accuracy of color can be critical in many fields, including graphic design, manufacturing and others. Using the Pantone Matching System ensures that the color used matches what was intended each time the color is reproduced, reprinted or remanufactured. The limitation is that Pantone Color Matching may not provide a perfect correlation to a color measured using RGB, such as in colors used in web page design.

Instructions

1. Determine the Pantone color that needs to be converted to RGB. In this case, we are using Pantone 320, a dark teal color.

2. Navigate to one of the Pantone to RGB converter pages by GoffGrafix or Zeald. These sites list the standard Pantone colors and their correlation to RGB measurements.

3. Scroll down to Pantone 320 and read the RGB measurements for that color. The measurements are always reported in the order RGB or red, green and blue. Pantone 320 correlates to an RGB measurement of 0, 158, 160.

References

• Pantone: Who We Are
• GoffGrafix: Converting Pantone Colors to RGB
• Zeald: Convert Pantone Colours to RGB