Connecting Pantone With Data Viz
Expand your color toolbox with the Pantone Connect app
Pantone Connect is a recently released app for selecting Pantone colors or for extracting Pantone colors from images on your desktop or mobile devices. Personalized color palettes can be digitally created from Pantone’s color library of more than 10,000 hues. In this writing, I discuss how the Pantone Connect app can be used to facilitate the process of creating data visualizations by combining it with other tools like Viz Palette and the Color Blindness Simulator — Coblis. During this journey, I will focus on four tasks:(1) creating a Pantone color theme for a specific data visualization; (2) using Pantone Connect to extract colors from an image to build a customized color theme; (3) integrating Pantone Connect with other tools to address color deficiencies and data visualization possibilities, and (4) identifying Pantone colors in an existing data visualization for high end printing or other physical output specifications.
In addition to the web site, a free version of the Pantone Connect Mobile app, with access to the Pantone color libraries, is available from the Apple’s App Store, Google Play and…
