Color guides: Plus Series CMYK set, Plus Series Color Bridge set, and GoeGuide coated
Software: Color Manager for Mac v.1b3, myPantone v1.5
Company: Pantone
Prices: CMYK $125; Color Bridge $209; GoeGuide $79; software inc. ($49.95 separately)
The “African Chips” illustration (below) is from Tones by PANTONE 1.01 newsletter

In 1961 Johnny Cash wrote Forty Shades of Green, a sentimental song that is still played wherever Celtic cowpersons gather to slake their thirsts. Today, almost half a century after the song was written, your Mac can display millions of colors and forty no longer seems a big number. If you take color seriously, either professionally or vocationally, at some point you will have to address the question, “Which forty greens?” — perhaps not exactly that question, but something similar. To give a meaningful answer you will need to speak a color language, and that means you will need to choose a color system.

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