CCE Branding & Color Identity Flashcards
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What is the primary purpose of a brand color standards guide?
Answer: To ensure consistent color reproduction across all media and vendors
A brand color standards guide documents approved color values for all media so that vendors and designers can reproduce brand colors consistently.
When specifying a brand color for use on a website, which color model is used?
Answer: RGB/Hex
Web colors are specified as RGB values or hexadecimal codes because digital screens are additive RGB devices.
A company needs to maintain consistent logo color across offset printing and digital displays. What is the best practice?
Answer: Specify Pantone for print and convert to RGB for digital using accurate ICC profiles
Specifying Pantone for print and converting to calibrated RGB for digital via ICC profiles ensures the most accurate cross-media color consistency.
What is a brand color palette?
Answer: A curated set of approved colors representing a brand's visual identity
A brand color palette is a carefully selected set of primary, secondary, and accent colors that define and differentiate a brand's visual identity.
Which Pantone guide is specifically designed to show how spot colors appear on coated paper stock?
Answer: Pantone Solid Coated
The Pantone Solid Coated guide shows how spot colors appear on coated (glossy) paper, which affects perceived brightness and saturation.
When a brand's primary Pantone spot color cannot be used due to budget constraints, what is the recommended next step?
Answer: Convert to CMYK using Pantone's published CMYK equivalent
Pantone provides published CMYK equivalents for each PMS color, giving the closest achievable match in four-color process printing.