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Colorsource Colors of the Year 2026:

PANTONE, a self-claimed world color authority, are promoting a pale gray white as "Color of the Year 2026".

PANTONE argument: "At this time of transformation, when we are reimagining our future and our place in the world, Pantone 11-4201 Cloud Dancer is a discrete hue offering a promise of clarity"

Maybe PANTONE had initially planned naming this white tint for their reimagined brave new world, as "WHITE GREENLAND" or "WHITE CANADIAN WINTER", in order to flatter Donald Trump inflated ego, what most of US companies such as Apple or Meta constantly do.

In the end, PANTONE switched to the more neutral "Cloud dancer" name, because they feared some foreign customers could be shocked: PANTONE would then lose market-shares because of some stupid Creatives who would no longer pay for their colors and for the air they breathe.

But obviously, "Cloud dancer" has not convinced much: Most of Europeans and other civilized nations, strangely prefer the IKEA 2026 Color of the Year named "Rebel Pink".

The Washington Post underlines that "White in decor is the ultimate neutral, but in a year filled with news about rising white nationalism, proclaiming a white hue the color of 2026 might raise some eyebrows"...

At Colorsource, we think the problem is even worse: Nobody should promote a so called "Color of the Year" standing so many miles away from real world!

So, we suggest PANTONE should rather help Colorsource promoting worldwide the TWO following colors, that do perfectly match Year 2026 spirit and trends:

PANTONE ORANGE TRUMP, aka ORANGE PEDOPHILIA,
aka ОРАНЖЕВЫЙ КОМПРОМАТ, aka BIG-HEADED GOLDEN PUMPKIN:

This color is for honoring a US President constantly approving and supporting the worst war criminals worldwide, when not taking part himself into these crimes, while attacking US and international judicial institutions.

No doubt ORANGE TRUMP is THE 2026 Color of the Year, and should soon decorate and illuminate every US official building, monument, and institute. Including the Kennedy Center, the new White House ballroom; and, why not, the American flag, in order to sell it again to Putin as a new carpet!

PANTONE BROWN NAZI VANCE, aka BROWN NAZI HAMEL,
aka BROWN NAZI BOWMAN, aka RIGID-MINDED CHAMELEON:

This color is for honoring a US Vice-President constantly trying to teach Europe lessons about democracy and freedom of speech, while actively encouraging and supporting all fascist, racist, xenophobic, and nazi movements on our continent.

And while he is trying to destabilize the European democracies, just as his friend Vladimir Putin does,
JD VANCE claims he is speaking and acting every day in the name of God: This is exactly what all terrorists say, including the most dangerous Islamists: They all act in the name of God, claiming they are able to speak on his behalf!

Happy 2026 New Year to all of you! Cannot be worse than 2025 ;-)

February 2025:

Donald Trump closing a GREAT DEAL with Vladimir Putin:

 

"Once again, I am a real business genius:
I sold Putin the American flag as a nice carpet!"

Please see on YouTube the transcript of the powerful and deadly accurate speech in the French Senate by Mr. Claude Malhuret:

French senator Claude Malhuret great speech about Trump subtitles english

July 2025:

Alas, less and less competition between the Suppliers of color measurement instruments dedicated to Graphic Industries:

See the Vendors link here

November 2024: An excellent video clip summarizing the calibration process of a GOSS M-600 drum web press using our MagicPress & MagicPrepress applications

The whole drum web press calibration practical process explained on YouTube by our talented friend and partner Denis Gimenez:

https://youtu.be/qElixIxcbYU?si=ps46xy5S3nUZPXlr

Thank you so much Denis!

Colorsource offers you a complete point about PANTONE and other special inks

Everything you should know in 2024 about PANTONE and else spot colors:

Colorsource offers you a complete point about Pantone and other special inks for their best use with desktop publishing applications, with digital printing, and with printing presses.

Download this 22 pages document:

The complete June 2021 ISO12647-2-3-4-6-7 and G7/IDEAlliance standards summary

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Colorsource ISO 12647 and G7/IDEAlliance CMYK standards summary updated June 2021:

This 51 pages PDF document is summarizing the necessary information:

1) For setting your printing presses matching ISO 12647-2-3-4-6 or G7/IDEAlliance standards,

2) For producing your color proofs complying with ISO12647-7 on a simple A3+ EPSON inkjet costing less than 300 US$,

3) For controlling all CMYK color proofs using freeware, according to ISO 12642, ISO 12647-7 or IDEAlliance standards, or by using more relevant techniques,

4) For making optimized ISO 12647-2-3-4-6 or G7/IDEAlliance (GRACoL & SWOP) color separations,

5) For downloading affordable applications allowing you fast and easy ISO 12647-2-3-4-6 or G7/IDEAlliance press settings, with using very affordable and flexible measurement instruments such as Eye-One Pro family, or Konca-Minolta MYIRO-1 or else fast scanning spectrophotometers,

6) For knowing ISO12647-2:2013 version and understanding its limits,

7) For updating and enhancing your CMYK ISO or G7/IDEAlliance ICC profiles.

You will find at the end of this PDF document all useful Internet links for downloading additional technical information, the readymade generic CMYK ISO ICC profiles, and the official characterization data allowing you computing your own enhanced CMYK ISO profiles.

A free brand new application for controlling your CMYK proofs and prints

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Our free application Magic_Proof_&_Print_Control allows you best and fastest control of all your CMYK (plus one to ten inks) colors proofs :

This application is FREE software and allows you faster, easier and more reliable control of any CMYK proof... and MUCH more:

Save a LOT of time and PAPER, and boost your print quality and productivity with Colorsource MagicPress and MagicPrepress applications:

Thanks to the prepress and pressroom software applications we have developed for you, a basic X-Rite i1Pro 1, 2 or 3 costing less than 1000 Euros, or else modern scanning connected spectrophotometer such as Konica-Minolta MYIRO-1, replace quite advantageously the best and most expensive proprietary pressroom spectrophotometers such as eXact 2 or FD7, for all your color printing applications using offset, gravure and flexographic technologies: Much more productive AND much cheaper.

MagicPress and MagicPrepress applications allow all Print Houses to significantly enhance their print quality, and allow all Print Buyers diagnose quite accurately any color quality problem.

MagicPress and MagicPrepress allow you managing all your ONE to TEN colors print standards with or without a CMYK base, on all your one to ten colors printing presses.

MagicPress and MagicPrepress can process any CGATS spectral (or non-spectral) One to Ten colors chart measurement file with classic spectral ranges such as 380-730, or 400-700 nm or else.

Do not hesitate asking us remote support and demos using Microsoft Teams or Zoom applications!

The ruins of Paris

Romain Meffre and Yves Marchand have published their new book with Nathan Devers, “Les ruines de Paris”, at Albin Michel:

An excellent analysis on the Beaux Arts Magazine website (in French):

Un Paris post-apocalyptique créé grâce à l'IA dans une expo et un livre | Beaux Arts

An interview with Yves and Romain on France 24 (in English):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMCPS4V3ESU

A small making-off about their previous book Movie Theaters (ARTE/ Tracks)::

https://youtu.be/e6Kd73F2OYI

Yves and Romain website:

http://marchandmeffre.com/theaters
CMYK press test form very small

Free and universal CMYK print test forms for fast and easy setting of all your printing presses:

The 100 x 70 cm CMYK test form can be cropped down to a 70 x 50 cm, or to a 50 x 35 cm test form. The base 50 x 35 cm test form includes all the CMYK charts you need for easily matching all your printing presses to ISO12647-2-3-4-6 or IDEAlliance standards. On the beautiful and colorful theme of Indonesian colors, this CMYK test forms offers you, beyond all technical requirements, a full set of color photography's allowing you full control of your printing and proofing systems. This universal test form is supplemented by two SRA3 CMYK forms for small format presses.

CMYK_Backgrounds

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With CMYK_Backgrounds application, optimize your print works on colored or transparent medias, with or without white ink:

CMYK + RGB colors when printing on red substrate with different numbers of white ink layers

Still to be reminded in Print Industries:

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