Do you know what standard color cards are commonly used in textile printing and dyeing?

1. PANTONE color card



PANTONE color card (PANTONE) should be the textile, printing and dyeing practitioners contact the most color card.



Pantone, headquartered in Karlsstadt, New Jersey, USA, is a world-renowned authority specializing in the development and research of color, as well as a supplier of color systems, providing many industries including printing and other colors such as digital technology, textiles, plastics, architecture and interior design professional color selection and accurate communication language.



The color card for the textile industry is PANTONE TX card, which is divided into PANTONE TPX(paper card) and PANTONE TCX (cotton card). The PANTONE C card and U card are also used more frequently in the printing industry. The annual Pantone Color of the year has long been a representative of the world's popular colors.

2, COLORO color card



Coloro is a revolutionary color application system developed by China Textile Information Center and jointly launched by WGSN, the world's largest fashion trend forecasting company.



Each color is encoded by 7 digits in a 3D model color system. Each code represents a point that is the intersection of hue, lightness, and chroma. Through this scientific system, 1.6 million colors can be defined, consisting of 160 hues, 100 lightness, and 100 chrominance combinations.

3. DIC COLOR card



DIC color cards, originated in Japan, are specially used in industry, graphic design, packaging, paper printing, architectural coatings, inks, textiles, printing and dyeing, design and other aspects.

4. MUNSELL color cards



The color card is named after the American colorist Albert H. Munsell (1858-1918), Munsell color system after the American National Bureau of Standards and the Optical Society repeatedly revised, became one of the recognized standard color system in the color field.

5. NCS color cards



NCS research began in 1611, and has become the national test standard in Sweden, Norway, Spain and other countries, it is the most widely used color system in Europe. It describes the color in the way the eye sees the color, and can judge the basic properties of the color by the color number, such as: blackness, chroma, whiteness, and hue.

6. RAL color card



RAL, German Lauer color card. The German European standard is also widely used internationally. The four-digit RAL color has been the color standard for 70 years and has grown to more than 200 varieties.

7. CSI Textile color cards



CSI/Color Wallette Color Manual is the market leader in textile solutions, providing solutions for all stages of textile production and precise color management tools for businesses and trade retailers in the textile supply chain.

8, YKK zipper color card



YKK color card is YKK zipper and YKK products special color card, YKK color card a total of six pages, there are 582 colors, each page average distribution of 100 color positions, the latest YKK color card in these six pages have 18 color positions are vacant, the remaining 582 colors are all fabric sample display.

9. ARCHROMA cotton color card



ARCHROMA cotton color is the latest synthetic color standard for clothing, textile and soft home designers and product developers. The color card has a total of six colors, 4,320 color numbers, with an NFC chip, which can be scanned by a mobile phone to obtain detailed color data, and each color number is equipped with a recommended formula for active, disperse, and acidic dyes.

10. SCOTDIC cotton color cards



The color card provides 2300 different SCOTDIC colors, each color block size of 1.5×4 cm, each block has a self-adhesive back glue, can be freely torn off, when the color can be re-glued. It is widely used in clothing design, textile printing and dyeing, color proofing, color verification and import and export textile trade.

11, Japan Sanshan yarn color card



Japan Sanshan color card, has become a widely used socks industry color reference book, customers every year new products to Sanshan color catalog color, as a reference model for product color design, newly revised into 365 colorful multi-purpose colors, widely used in the socks textile industry.