Pantone Skin Tone Guide
Dec. 18th, 2012 02:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
labricoleuseTheatrical dyers, take note! Sure, you probably are familiar with Pantone color guides, but did you know that they recently released a 110-color skin tone guide? For years I have been working with a home-made skin tone guide, composed of a fat stack of paint sample cards from the hardware store. It's worked fine, but it looks a bit slapdash when you bust it out in a fitting to take a skinton color for a dye job.
So, i was thrilled when our shop manager presented me with the new Pantone Skin Tone Guide, and i'm looking forward to having it for teaching the color match unit in my spring dye class. It's not cheap at $89, but it's not exorbitant and I like how it works much better than the paint-chip one I've been using.
The guide fans out around a corner pin, which you can remove if you want to hang it on a string or separate the cards for any reason.
The hole in the center of each card allows you to isolate a patch of skin. I find it works best to see if i've got a match to unfocus my eyes and see if the patch "disappears" into the background.
On a related note, check out the Tumblr for the Humanae project which uses traditional Pantone numbers for codifying skin tones.
So, i was thrilled when our shop manager presented me with the new Pantone Skin Tone Guide, and i'm looking forward to having it for teaching the color match unit in my spring dye class. It's not cheap at $89, but it's not exorbitant and I like how it works much better than the paint-chip one I've been using.
The guide fans out around a corner pin, which you can remove if you want to hang it on a string or separate the cards for any reason.
The hole in the center of each card allows you to isolate a patch of skin. I find it works best to see if i've got a match to unfocus my eyes and see if the patch "disappears" into the background.
On a related note, check out the Tumblr for the Humanae project which uses traditional Pantone numbers for codifying skin tones.
