How to use Pantone® Colours of the Year in your Silhouette Designs.

Pantone® is a recognised industry standard Colour matching system that influences Fashion, Homewares  and manufacturing worldwide.

Last month Pantone® announced their colour of the year for 2016, except that this time around they announced 2 colours! The Pantone® colours for 2016 are Rose Quartz which is a beautiful shade of Pink and Serenity, a tranquil shade of Blue.

If you’d like to keep up with the current trends by using these lovely colours when designing  Print & Cut projects with the Silhouette software  – read on:

This has been tested in Silhouette Studio Designers Edition V3 (3.6.57ssde)

• Open and select the Design element you wish to work on.
• Click on the Colour Fill Window
• Select Advanced Options

• With the design element you are working on still selected – Copy and paste or type the following HTML codes into the small box marked #. For Serenity the code is: 92A8D1 and for Rose Quartz it is:  F7CAC9. Then hit enter. I did the heart in Serenity (not pictured) and the pic below shows the overlay in Rose Quartz.

• Repeat the above steps with the Line Colour window
• That’s it – so easy!

Resources

For the  “How To” demo above, I used the free Valentine cutting files available on this post.

The HTML conversion codes I have used for the colours are from the Pantone® website with a host of other information – there’s also some great images of how other designers and manufacturer’s are using the colours already.

 

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