Pantone Extends Mobile Access For Color Communication on the Go

July 11, 2011

Delivers First myPANTONE Android Application; myPANTONE 2.0 Improves Color Accuracy for iPhone CARLSTADT, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As design projects continue to become more digital and designers more mobile, the demand for applications to support an ever-changing work dynamic intensifies. Pantone LLC, an X-Rite company (NASDAQ: XRIT) and the global authority on color and provider of professional color standards for the design industries, today announced two new mobile applications to meet this growing need – myPANTONETM for AndroidTM and myPANTONE 2.0 for the iPhoneTM. myPANTONE for Android brings Pantone’s popular iPhone application for capturing, creating and sharing PANTONE® Color Palettes to the Android platform – giving graphic, digital, multimedia, fashion, interior and industrial designers access to more than 13,000 PANTONE Colors wherever they go, whenever they find inspiration. myPANTONE 2.0 incorporates feedback from more than 80,000 Pantone fans to extend the functionality of the original myPANTONE application and meet the growing needs of designers. myPANTONE 2.0 adds several enhanced features, including color calibration tools to improve the appearance of PANTONE Colors on screen, CMYK support for PANTONE PLUS SERIES Colors, access to ICC color-managed values, and the ability to print color palettes straight from the iPhone. myPANTONE for Android also automatically generates a variety of harmonious color combinations. Additionally, invaluable cross-referencing color capabilities make it simple for users to find similar colors among the various PANTONE Color Libraries. For example, users can identify the PANTONE FASHION + HOME Color that most closely matches any PANTONE PLUS Color.

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