PANTONE® Solid Color Set
Formula Guide & Solid Chips Coated & Uncoated
Professional Pantone Solid Color Set with Formula Guide and Solid Chips Books for spot colour matching, palette building and approvals.
The PANTONE Solid Color Set - Formula Guide & Solid Chips | Coated & Uncoated is a complete professional colour toolkit for designers, printers, brand teams and production specialists working with Pantone Spot Colours across print and packaging workflows. Combining the Pantone Formula Guide with the Pantone Solid Chips Books, this set gives users both a portable colour matching guide and a shareable desktop chip reference in one coordinated bundle.
The set contains the current Pantone Graphics spot colour range of 2,390 market-driven colours, including 224 newer graphics colours developed for contemporary design needs. These additions expand the palette with more expressive, vivid and nuanced options, giving creative teams greater flexibility for branding, packaging, marketing materials, print design and visual identity systems.
The Formula Guide is the core handheld reference for selecting, specifying and communicating Pantone Spot Colours. Printed as coated and uncoated fan decks, it shows each colour with its corresponding number and ink formulation. This makes it essential for moving from creative colour choice to production-ready colour specification. Printers can use the ink formulas to help reproduce Pantone Spot Colours accurately on printed materials.
The Solid Chips Books provide the same colour language in a removable chip format. Each chip book page shows up to seven Pantone Colours, with six individual 1.2 × 0.8 inch chips per colour. The perforated chips can be removed, shared, attached to artwork, placed into project folders, used in mood boards or sent to printers, suppliers and clients as physical colour references.
This combination is especially valuable because colour decisions often need to move between people and locations. A designer may use the Formula Guide for initial colour selection, then remove chips from the Solid Chips Books for client approval, production briefings, press checks, packaging mock-ups or supplier communication. The set supports a smoother workflow from inspiration through specification and quality review.
Both coated and uncoated formats are included. This is important because paper surface has a major influence on printed colour appearance. Coated stock can make colours appear cleaner and more vibrant, while uncoated stock often produces a softer, more absorbent result. Having both references helps teams make better decisions for packaging, stationery, brochures, catalogues, marketing materials, labels and brand applications.
The guides and chip books are printed on commonly used paper stock weights: 100 lb / 148 gsm coated paper and 80 lb / 118 gsm uncoated paper. These paper references make the set relevant for many commercial print environments and allow users to evaluate Pantone colours in relation to practical production surfaces.
The chip books include all current Pantone Spot Colours as perforated removable paper chips with three-sided colour bleed. This detail is important for colour evaluation because chips can be placed directly beside other colours with less visual interference from a white border. It is particularly useful for palette building, colour comparison, packaging layouts, brand systems and mood board development.
Two paper chip savers are included for organising and storing loose chips. This helps studios and production teams keep active colour palettes, approved chips and project-specific selections together. Instead of losing removed chips or mixing them into unrelated projects, teams can maintain clearer colour documentation during creative and production processes.
A Lighting Indicator page in the Formula Guide helps demonstrate when lighting conditions are suitable for colour evaluation. This supports more reliable visual assessment in studios, print rooms, client meetings and press checks, where unsuitable light can lead to incorrect colour decisions.
The colours are arranged chromatically, with newer Formula Guide colour pages positioned at the front of the guides. Indexes in the back of the guides and front of the books provide numeric location for each colour, helping users find Pantone references quickly during meetings, design work and production reviews.
For branding and logo design, the Pantone Solid Color Set supports colour consistency across printed brand assets. Teams can define a Pantone Spot Colour, communicate it clearly and share removable chips with stakeholders who need to approve or reproduce the colour.
For packaging design, the set is particularly strong. Packaging colour must be distinctive, consistent and production-ready. Removable chips help align designers, printers, converters and brand owners before final output, while the Formula Guide supports ink-based specification.
For marketing and graphic design, the set supports brochures, catalogues, campaigns, event materials, displays, direct mail, labels and premium print communication. It gives creative teams a reliable physical standard for choosing and presenting colour.
For digital design teams working alongside print, the set provides the physical Pantone reference that often anchors wider brand colour systems. Digital values still require separate colour management, but the printed Pantone reference helps define the intended colour target for real-world output.
The PANTONE Solid Color Set is ideal for inspiration, palette planning, specification, sharing, approval and evaluation. It is not only a library of colours, but a cross-functional workflow tool that helps teams communicate colour clearly from design concept to final printed material.
For professional B2B users in branding, packaging, print manufacturing, product communication and graphic design, this set offers one of the most complete Pantone Spot Colour solutions. It brings together portability, removable chips, ink formulation data and coated/uncoated comparison to support precise, collaborative and production-focused colour decisions.
Key Benefits
- Complete Pantone Spot Colour workflow set
- Includes Formula Guide and Solid Chips Books
- Current Pantone Graphics range with 2,390 spot colours
- Includes 224 newer graphics colours
- Coated and uncoated formats included
- Formula Guide includes ink formulations
- Solid Chips Books include removable perforated chips
- Up to seven Pantone Colours per chip book page
- Six 1.2 × 0.8 inch chips per colour
- Three-sided colour bleed for easier comparison
- Printed on 100 lb / 148 gsm coated paper
- Printed on 80 lb / 118 gsm uncoated paper
- Includes two paper chip savers
- Lighting Indicator page for suitable viewing conditions
- Ideal for branding, packaging, print design and approvals
