Pantone Guide to Communicating with Color

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Summary: Extremely helpful
Review: A great compilation of colors that work in real life situations.

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Summary: All Graphics Designers - A Must
Review: As an owner of a graphic design studio, I have a huge library of design books. Your book is one of the best investments I have made since I opened my business. It's wonderful for design and color inspiration.

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Summary: Color Thesaurus for the Chromatically Challenged!
Review: As well as for graphic artists.

I am an author as well as entrepreneur and have long researched color combinations for presenting information and creating a recognizable corporate identity.

If you're one of those people who "know what you're looking for" but can't articulate it, this comprehensive guide has every major color combination you could possibly want, conveniently grouped by the "unique color proposition" (like USP, unique selling proposition), you're trying to convey. (If you already have a color scheme selected, you should check it out here to see whether it unwittingly conveys connotations you don't want associated with your company.)

If you're a graphic designer (I'm not), you can plunk this book down in front of a client with some suggestions and save both of you a lot of aggravation and miscommunication.

I've researched just about every "color guide" out there and have found this one by far the most helpful. It's simple and easy to use, practical without a lot of the questionable theorizing other authors on color seem to need to include.

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Summary: A must for learning how color effects us
Review: Dear Leatrice-

Although I LOVE color, it's the mixing of color and how color effects people that baffles me.

As a business and life coach, especially in business, often my clients ask me to guide them and their graphic designers. (which believe me is worse than the blind leading the blind) Personally, my wardrobe resembles Skittles and my home is a more subdued version.

However, I often refer graphic designers and web designers to your book and most of my clients end up with a copy as well.

Thank you for writing such a clear concise book that give real information about how to combine color.

I'll never be an expert, but your book gives my suggestions a little more credibility and helps my clients make better choices.

Interesting what you say about the light where you live. Here on Cape Cod, the light has a definate yellow cast. Many of Edward Hopper's Cape Cod paintings show the odd light.

Thank you! Great books!

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Summary: Bring new life to your designs! Highly recommended!
Review: Every designer likes to challenge themselves to making great designs with typography usage and using unique designs to catch one's attention.

I believe that to also catch attention, a designer needs to train themselves in the use of color. Understanding color. It's not as easy as it sounds but if you have the right tools and the right people teaching you, you can pull of awesome designs.

Also, when it comes to color...it's hard when over the phone, a client or agency wants an ad in a certain color. "I would like a color between burgundy and red", "I want a dark forest green but not too dark or too light" and with your color booklet, you can either take it to the client or agency and have them pick it out and then what's next?

Your client wants an orange ad, a red ad, a neutral ad, something energetic, something playful, something... But what other colors would go with that orange, that red, that neutral, etc.

For many years I have heard and read about Leatrice Eiseman aka the color guru and the presentations she has given to different groups about understanding color and how color can make a big difference in one's life.

I have to admit that my head was spinning in the last few weeks because although I felt I was good with color, I've been given work which used colors that I would not normally pick for ads. But as a designer, you need to make it happen and thus knowing Eiseman's role and how she has help many people understand color, I looked toward the "Pantone Guide to Communicating with Color".

I have spent a lot of money on color booklets but this book literally... let's just say that I'm happy and has brought new life to my work.

Not only does she break down the colors and certain moods, for each section is a section for color combinations. She goes into the choices of colors and why they are appropriate and why the work. On the page before it are magazine ads that used those appropriate colors and I was just amazed.

Before I would stick with certain colors for certain moods and most of the time, they were the same Pantone colors but now thanks to this book, I'm not afraid to take the step in utilizing other colors for different moods and I can quickly reference what other colors combinations would work for my ads.

I don't know how I can emphasize how useful this book is as a tool and reference book. It goes beyond to what I expected. If you want to understand color and help your designs to make up a certain mood, this book is highly recommended as the first book under the $50 range! In fact, this book does even better than some expensive color books are able to achieve. Check it out!

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Summary: graphic design
Review: Good content - terrible graphic design of this book. The book designers should leave this profession.

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Summary: Crisp, Clean, Confident, Modern, Professional, & Relevant.
Review: Having gone over 2 to 3 dozen "color" books at my library. This easily ranks as one of the best. (maybe THE best) Where other books might discuss color, and the feelings it can evoke. This book will give you intense digital color photography (like no other book), while showcasing the color in lifestyle concepts to spark your imagination.

For retailers, interior designers, graphic designers, and others who depend on the importance of color: it's a great reference read, to get you on the right track. It's hard to go wrong with a Pantone book, they've pretty much written THE book on color. Nobody's more official... MCM

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Summary: Crisp, Clean, Confident, Modern, Professional, & Relevant.
Review: Having gone over 2 to 3 dozen "color" books at my library. This easily ranks as one of the best. (maybe THE best) Where other books might discuss color, and the feelings it can evoke. This book will give you intense digital color photography (like no other book), while showcasing the color in lifestyle concepts to spark your imagination.

For retailers, interior designers, graphic designers, and others who depend on the importance of color: it's a great reference read, to get you on the right track. It's hard to go wrong with a Pantone book, they've pretty much written THE book on color. Nobody's more official... MCM

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Summary: My colleagues are wondering themselves ...
Review: how I manage to produce so beautiful color combinations without any (apparent) effort.

When I bought this book I was feeling somewhat skeptical but, together with Jim Krause's book on color combinations, it have saved me from the stress of spending hours to get the perfect color combination for my exhibition design projects.

I converted the Pantone colors suggested in 4-color separations and printed them with our HP5000Ps. I thought the results would be different but the combinations looked as beautiful as those in the book.

Thanks, thanks and more thanks!!!

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Summary: very disappointing
Review: I am a non-professional designer who was expecting to learn something new from this book. I didn't. It's like a children's book. See blue? Can you think of anything that is blue? Water is blue. Water is cool.... I'm seeing red after spending $ on this item.