john deere color code

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Howie_Jelinski
Oct 20, 2008
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What is the best method for finding the codes for specific colors? In my case I would like to know the code for ‘john deere green’

Thanks in advance:)
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John_T_Smith
Oct 20, 2008
Hmm… not exactly what you asked, but there are color charts here

HTM Color Codes <http://html-color-codes.com/>
or <http://www.pagetutor.com/common/bgcolors1536.html> or <http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/2397/>
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Phosphor
Oct 20, 2008
What code?

Hex?

RGB? CMYK? Pantone?

Have you sampled the color using your eyedropper tool? All the readouts you need will appear in the Info Palette/Panel. There, the readouts can be changed by dropping the menu(s) to be found by clicking on the tiny eyedropper icon(s). Also, there are readouts in the Color Palette, and the (approximate) Pantone Color can be found by clicking on the "Color Libraries" button.

I seem to recall that "John Deere Green" is a custom spot color (Just like "Coca Cola Red") so all you will ever do is get "close."

Additionally—and perhaps most importantly—grabbing, and seeing and using—the correct color can be dependent upon having a properly calibrated monitor, and being familiar with best-practice color workflow management. And that, in itself, is a subject to which much discussion and many webpages have been devoted.

Sooooo, now that I’ve said all that, how savvy are you about color issues?
JR
John_R_Nielsen
Oct 20, 2008
You could ask John Deere directly here < https://secured.deere.com/en_US/deerecom/httpscontent/tradem arkfeedback.html>.
HJ
Howie_Jelinski
Oct 20, 2008
Thanks for your suggestions. I am very very new at this and have no idea as to the complexity of my question. I was hoping someone would jsut say ‘oh its *****’ but looks like that will not happen.

I will do my best to get it close with the eye dropper I suppose.

Very briefly, can someone tell me what panatone means, I am trying to learn this app as I go.
DM
Don_McCahill
Oct 20, 2008
Pantone is a color scheme for describing colors. There are about 2000 different colors, numbered. The company prints samples on different types of paper, and sells them.

This means that an advertiser no longer has to say … give me a real punchy red, leaving a printer to try and guess what makes a red "punchy". Instead the print salesman hands the proper set of swatches to the advertiser, telling him to pick out a "punch red". The advertiser chooses Pantone 199, and this tells the printer to mix an ink that will match his copy of the swatch.

It also means that the advertiser can no longer claim that the color was wrong and refuse to pay if it matches the swatch.
JR
John_R_Nielsen
Oct 20, 2008
Pantone home page <http://pantone.com/pages/pantone/index.aspx>.

While Pantone is branching out to other areas such as textiles, they are most known for their "Pantone Matching System", or PMS (they no longer use that name).

Pantone sells ink to commercial printers, and also Formula Guide swatch books. For instance, a rather "John Deere-like" color is #355. The printer would mix 13 parts Pantone Green, 3 parts Pantone Yellow, and 1/4 part Pantone Black.

The swatch books are expensive, but worth it if you’re doing any design work.

You can access the Pantone colors via the Photoshop color picker. In the upper right corner of the picker, click the "Color Libraries" button, and you’ll see the vrious Pantone libraries, as well as some others. To go back to the regular picker, click th "Picker" button.
JM
J_Maloney
Oct 20, 2008
According to their annual report: 82c 28m 98y 14k, which is roughly PMS 364.

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