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This article is from July 13, 2011, and is no longer current.

Match Colors on Android and iOS Devices with Pantone Apps

Version 1 of the myPantone color-matching app debuted back in September 2009. At last, Pantone has updated the app, which runs on the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. myPantone 2.0 adds the ability to print color palettes from your iOS device, CMYK support for Pantone PLUS SERIES Colors, and access to ICC color-managed values. Pantone says version 2.0 also includes calibration tools that are supposed to improve the accuracy of onscreen colors, though you do need to use those in conjunction with a ColorMunki or i1 calibrator.
myPantone 2.0 is a free update; if you’re buying the app for the first time, it’s $9.99 on the App Store.
The $7.99 myPantone for Android is similar to myPantone for the iPhone. You can use a device’s built-in camera to snap photos; extract colors from those photos (along with their sRGB, HL, and LAB values); find the closest Pantone color matches; and post automatically generated color palettes to www.mypantone.com. You can also email the palettes.
myPantone 2.0 for the iOS:

myPantone for Android:

  • Anonymous says:

    What is the process for calibrating the screen? I can’t find any information on this and the software is useless to me on a completely uncalibrated device. I have an i1 Pro with older software (Monaco Profiler Platinum). I can’t imagine how this would work without some new software feature or stand-alone software.

    On a side note, I hope the LAB values they give are D50 2deg observer-based like icc profiles expect, sometimes Pantone publishes values that clearly aren’t- for example the Fashion and Home digital library. Otherwise the LAB values from this won’t be of much use to anyone working digitally.

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