Sunday, August 23, 2009

Pantone Colors for Spring Coloring

I have been matching the Pantone colors with my best colors. I have light red hair, brown eyes and light-to-medium skin color. In the American Color Me Beautiful system, I am a spring; however, in the European version I am a warm/soft. My color varies slightly based on how recently I have dyed my hair, so I wear the softer colors as the color washes out.

I am not a color expert, but I thought the information might be useful to others with my coloring. I tried to match the colors to the Color Me Beautiful books, but I was not able to match some of the colors exactly, but it is close enough that I think the information will be helpful for those of you who order fabric online.

Whites to Beige
11-0601 soft white
11-0606 cream
13-0000 stone
15-1305 taupe
12-0807 shell
11-0104 buttermilk
Brown
15-1309 natural beige
18-1326 rose brown
17-1045 cocoa
19-0815 chocolate
16-1432 oatmeal
19-1034 bronze
16-1326 camel
17-1134 golden brown
19-1020 coffee brown
19-1430 mahogany
18-1449 rust
Gray
17-0000 pewter
19-0405 charcoal
Yellow
11-0616 primrose
13-0850 daffodil
15-0751 mustard
12-0736 light gold
Green
16-0435 lime
17-0610 sage
18-0312 moss
17-0613 gray-green
15-6316 verbena
16-5907 jade
18-6011 spruce
18-0420 olive
18-6024 evergreen
14-0223 yellow-green
150531 light moss
Blue-Green
16-5825 emerald-turquoise
17-5029 turquoise
19-4922 teal
12-4705 mint
16-4529 aqua
Blue
16-3919 sky blue
18-3930 light periwinkle
18-3918 charcoal blue
19-4044 sapphire
19-4118 light navy
Purple
16-3728 purple
18-3211 soft-violet
19-2312 eggplant
Red/Orange
15-2216 blush pink
19-1540 claret
19-1663 geranium
16-1532 coral
18-1661 true red
18-1550 bittersweet
17-1564 orange-red
16-1350 tangerine
16-1441 terracotta
14-1139 amber
14-1316 apricot
16-1539 salmon pink
18-1442 tomato red
16-1329 salmon
16-1454 pumpkin
12-0811 light peach
14-1220 peach

1 comment:

Pinkscissors said...

Cindy, how did you do this? Did you use the color swatches from the book and match them online? Or? Thanks.