Pantone Electric Pastels article and palette

[William Overington]

A link to an article linked from a circulated email that I received from Pantone today.

https://www.pantone.com/articles/colors/electric-pastels

William

 

[smadell]

Nice colors, William. The Pantone website gives the RGB values for each of those pastels, and I have attached an .afpalette file for them. (Note - the colors in the palette are a match for the colors on the website, but only if the starting point is a document using sRGB as a color profile. Otherwise, they will start out too saturated.)

Electric Pastels.afpalette

[William Overington]

2 minutes ago, smadell said:

Nice colors, William. The Pantone website gives the RGB values for each of those pastels, and I have attached an .afpalette file for them. (Note - the colors in the palette are a match for the colors on the website, but only if the starting point is a document using sRGB as a color profile. Otherwise, they will start out too saturated.)

Electric Pastels.afpalette 844 B · 1 download

Thank you.

So how do I use the palette please in Affinity Designer?

Are these the colours labelled as for Fashion, Home and Interiors or the ones labelled as Graphics?

With an earlier palette I tried to make a greetings card using all of the colours in the palette.

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/143812-informal-design-workshop-idea/

William

 

[Alfred]

6 minutes ago, William Overington said:

So how do I use the palette please in Affinity Designer?

Affinity Designer Help: Importing swatches palettes

(The ‘System Palette’ feature is not available on Windows.)

[smadell]

William - In response to the other question you asked, the RGB values were taken from the "Fashion, Home and Interiors" swatches. The "Graphics" swatches looked a bit too dark and saturated to my eye, and less like "pastels" (even electric ones).

[William Overington]

2 minutes ago, smadell said:

William - In response to the other question you asked, the RGB values were taken from the "Fashion, Home and Interiors" swatches. The "Graphics" swatches looked a bit too dark and saturated to my eye, and less like "pastels" (even electric ones).

Thank you. That is good. I will try to think up a design for a greetings card that uses all of those colours.

William

[smadell]

The Pantone website also lists their Colors of the Year dating back to 2000. Obviously, this seemed like an .afpalette document waiting to happen. I have created such a palette, and it is available in a separate thread: