Colors based on a system used worldwide that the Pantone print shop (New Jersey) introduced for the graphic arts industry in 1963./r/n The system is based on 512 reference color tones which are mixed from eight basic colors, black and white and are printed on coated and uncoated paper.
Today, there are over 1,100 Pantone colors available on a broad range of papers.
Pantone has also published color systems for textiles, plastics, paints, film and video.