Know what to expect

Shades Color Swatch guides are a perfect companion to Adobe Illustrator designers. Our CMYK color guide uses Illustrator's default print color swatches. Offering you levels of opacity of each color to help you choose the perfect hue. Once you know what to expect on a printed piece the easier it is to choose the perfect color for your design.

"Great Idea. I'm fairly certain not one of our design crew knows what real-world color is. Yeah, my guys are good but they have no idea what a printed page can replicate... this will definitely help"

Les Bidrawn - Photographer, Videography, Writer

Providing the CMYK tool every designer needs

Our CYMK process color guide offers more options, and more color hues on a common stock most offset printers offer, 16pt cardstock the most common stock used for Business cards and Flyers. We wanted to provide a tool to give every designer the ability to see a printed result of the most common used colors used in their designs at a price that everyone could afford.

"Shades will be a great tool to help customers accurately visualize, and choose their colors before we go to press"

Ron Myers - Gruppe B | motorsport design

Designed by a designer with every other designer in mind

This guide is for graphic design pre-press professionals and printers. This inexpensive tool is an essential tool for graphic designers, pre-press professionals and printers offering an alternative to other expensive color books on real world paper stock and UV coatings. Each card features: CMYK values RGB values HEX value Opacity levels of each color (100,90,80,70,60,50,40,30,20,10,5) One side UV gloss coated Offset gang-run printed on 16pt cardstock Attached together with removable aluminum pin

1188 Shades of Color

These formula guides are 54 color cards (Adobe Illustrator default color swatches for print). UV Coated one one side and non UV on the other side offers 1188 shades of color.