How to Add Pantone Plastics Colour Book

[Miss_Mac]

I've been given a set of branding guidelines by a client and asked to mock up some business card designs. The colour palette is in Pantone Industrial Design (plastics). I've never seen this before - I always use Pantone Solid Coated or Uncoated and InDesign CC 2018. Pantone Industrial isn't in the list of options I can choose. Any suggestions?

[kglad]

[ moved from Adobe Creative Cloud to InDesign]

[SJRiegel · Accepted solution]

Pantone Plastics are not ink colors, so there may not be a library you can add for print. 

Maybe this cross-reference will be of help, but they can't expect the colors to match exactly. Maybe look up their plastics colors on this chart, and send them chips for approval before proceeding.

https://www.pantone.com/downloads/articles/pdfs/plastics2pms.pdf

[Miss_Mac]

thank you!

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

As with all such things, since no process can "print" or create these colors, any close approximation will work within a tool like InDesign. The only need can be to create visual comps; the only control ID has is the color etc. of any printing to be done on plastic stock of these defined colors.

Very much a case where "close is good enough," IMHO, and it doesn't take much skill to create a matching color swatch for the Adobe tools.

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

Just a note that this link does not work anymore. 

Here is a link to the general plastics page:

https://www.pantone.com/color-tools/physical-color-tools/plastics

[jonasf5799369]

I am in the same situation and that pdf chart helped with 2 out of 4 for me but it seems to miss some color codes. I am looking for a conversion to PMS, RGB, CMYK or just any regular chart for Q410-4-1 and Q180-5-4 which i can't find in that PDF.

Any help appreciated!

[Steve Werner]

And you're asking here because?.... Since it's clear this isn't happening in InDesign, you should be asking Pantone representatives.