In 1963, he invented the first color matching system “PANTONE”.
The company was then bought by “Lawrence Herbert”, who had been an employee of the company since 1956.
PANTONE was founded in 1962, at a time when the company only made color cards for cosmetics, paints, property furnishing companies. This Pantone Color Guide is used in the textile industry for color matching with dyed samples after fabric coloration process. A page has more than one swatch for just a single color, that means, the luminance varies from light to dark for any color like yellow and has many yellow colors. Whatever the color, it is easy to identify any color with the help of Pantone Color Guide, because each color has a different or unique code number. Pantone is a standard ‘Color Matching System’ where a code number is used to identify each color.
