Pantone Skin Tone Guide

Theatrical 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.

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