Tried to match a Pantone color by eye and ended up with 3 different shades of green

I was working on a simple flyer for a friend's lawn care business. They wanted a specific green that matched their truck wrap. I spent 45 minutes tweaking RGB sliders thinking I nailed it. Printed a test and it looked like a different color entirely. Then I tried again with a different monitor calibration and got another shade. Turns out I should have just asked for the Pantone number from the wrap shop up front. Has anyone else gone down this rabbit hole with color matching?

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lee_barnes705d ago

Yeah, been there. Buying a color calibration tool for my monitor was the only thing that finally made my prints match what I saw on screen.

mitchell.shane5d ago

Ngl, the Datacolor SpyderX was a game changer for me.