Color shift in Pantone color when exporting to PNG?

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May 25, 2021
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I do a lot of logo design, delivering vector EPS files and raster PNG files to clients.

When creating PNG files, I've been using the File > Export > Export As function.

In Illustrator, the Color Picker gives me particular RGB and HEX specs for selected Pantone Matching System (PMS) colors. I have always been under the imprression that these RGB and HEX specs stay consistent when using the Export As function to create a transparent PNG of a vector logo file.

I have recently discovered, however, that this is NOT the case. When using the Export As function, the RGB and HEX specs of PMS colors are NOT consistent with the specs shown in Illustrator, becoming slightly more flat and dull.

How can one export a transparent PNG file from a PMS-defined Illustrator file keeping the RGB and HEX specs consistent?

Thanks for any help.

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Sanket Misal

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Hi, I believe I faced the same problem. The way I solved it was by assigning proper colour profile that of the workspace.
The way you do it is by going Edit > Assign Profile > Working sRGB IEC....

This worked for me, I hope it does for you too
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Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

Is your Illustrator document mode CMYK or RGB?

Pantone colors are ink mixes, and of course you cannot export an ink to an png file which uses RGB values.

What is your document color profile? You can see that at the bottom of your document window.

Unfortunately Illustrator does not export profiles when exporting png files, so other apps just have to guess.

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John HartwellAuthor

Participant

Thanks for your reply, Ton.

The document color mode (File > Document Color Mode) is CMYK. I'm using Illustrator 25.2.3.

I'm afraid I don't see anything regarding a document color profile at the bottom of my document window.

I understand PMS colors being inks and such. As I mentioned, Illustrator's Color Picker shows me a specific set of RGB and HEX equivalents from a given PMS color. When I go into Photoshop and create a new file specifying the exact same PMS color, Photoshop gives me the same RGB and HEX equivalents. My expectation, then, is that the PNG file generated from my Illustrator EPS file would show me those RGB and HEX specs.

Something is shifting, however, and I can't figure out what is causing that shift.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

At the bottom you can choose what to show there:

In a CMYK document, a conversion takes place to the RGB Working space of your Color Settings (View >Color Settings...). If that is anything else than sRGB, other applications will guess wrong and you have to assing that profile in Photoshop to the exported file.

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