PMS color identification

khowey
on 19 Dec 08 (16:22)

Can anyone eye what PMS color this brown ink might be?

http://dolcepress.com/products/wedding/retro_flower_&_vines/
(image also attached)

I’m looking for a deep, dark brown that is almost black, as in this letterpress example. Any suggestions for a precise PMS number? Thanks—

BrownInk.jpg

Lead Graffiti
on 19 Dec 08 (18:16)

Working from this image in Photoshop it just gave black as the closest color. In CMYK it was 63, 66, 72, 77.

I would just make some brown (bit of red, yellow, and blue) then very slowly add in black. It will get dark in a hurry. This looks so dark as to be BARELY off of black.

cmcgarr
on 19 Dec 08 (23:42)

4695 is a great rich brown

Dave Robison
on 20 Dec 08 (15:07)

While I won’t venture a guess as to the exact color shown in the photo, I do have a very dark, almost black, brown available if you’re interested. It’s a Toyo system color (8666) so it probably doesn’t have an exact PMS equivalent, but it’s close to PMS 4975 Brown or Pantone Black 4M (which is black with about 1/4 orange mixed in). A “quarter pound” tube (about 5 oz.) would be $7.50; e-mail me if you’d like a list of other colors available in tubes.

Dave (the Ink in Tubes guy)

dhorowitz
on 21 Dec 08 (18:16)

If you open up the image in Photoshop, select the color with the eyedropper tool, click on the color selected on the left-hand side, and then inside the color picker toolbar, click on custom and it will give you the Pantone color. When I did this, it gave me Pantone 412.