Digital Color Specification & Approval For Apparel, Footwear, and Soft Good Brands

Color Specificity: The Key to Brand Success The textile industry is one of the most complex, challenging, and competitive markets today. As brands strive to keep up with consumer trends and colors, they must also navigate limited resources, increasing expectations for quality, and stringent governmental requirements to protect our environment. The traditional textile workflow is burdened with subjectivity, Set Clear Expectations Using Digital Color waste, and delays. Simply approving color can take anywhere from a few days to many weeks, plus shipping, which slows time to market and increases...

COLOR SPECIFICATION: Provide One Source of Truth COLOR COMMUNICATION: Set Clear Expectations Many factors affect how we perceive color, including viewing angle, surrounding objects, and lighting, as well as the material’s texture, color, and ability to absorb dye. Using a digital color standard, brands can communicate precise color requirements on the target material, designers can use reproducible color in designs, and suppliers can fulfill color requirements in an objective way. In a traditional textile color workflow, brands send a physical sample for suppliers to match. After creating multiple...

Digital Tools for Color Measurement Spectrophotometers digitalize physical samples into spectral data for use in a digital color workflow. Brands use them to digitalize color specifications for use in a digital workflow, and suppliers use them to measure production samples to compare against the digital standard and evaluate if color is in tolerance. Specify color standards with associated digital values Measure opaque, transparent, translucent, and fluorescent samples with advanced calibrated UV. Quantify color and appearance simultaneously with specular included (SPIN/SCI) or specular excluded...

QUALITY CONTROL: Approve Lab Dips Without Physical Samples 8 Apparel, footwear, and soft good brands manage complex color workflows that require multiple steps, including design, dyeing, manufacturing, finishing, and quality control. Each step requires accurate color specification, communication, and evaluation, which can be even more challenging if brands and global suppliers use different instruments and software. COLOR INTEGRITY: Ensure Equipment is Optimized Brands need a holistic and repeatable way to evaluate color, ensure compliance, and rank suppliers. Brands need to ensure color quality...

COLOR SUPPORT: Help When and Where You Need It World Class Service Great color portrays great quality, and your brand’s success hinges on the consistent and accurate production of color. With so many places for color to go wrong, it can be hard to know how to get it right. By blending the art and science of color, we help you achieve the highest level of color integrity so your product comes out ahead. We pair world-class support with all our products and solutions to help you stay in compliance and prevent problems before they begin. Our ISO:17025 A2LA certification ensures we meet quality and...

Pantone: The Art of Color More than 10 million designers and producers around the world rely on Pantone products and services to help define, communicate, and control color from inspiration to realization – leveraging advanced X-Rite technology to achieve color consistency across various materials and finishes for graphics, fashion and product design. X-Rite: The Science of Color With over 60 years of innovation and proven expertise in color management and color measurement, X-Rite has solutions to support everyone in the textile industry to ensure color accuracy and color quality are upheld...