5:07 pm
Simon
I was looking into trade marks when I stumbled upon the Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys' website. On this there is a list of trademarkable things; I found it fascinating to find that it is possible to trademark a specific colour. With that in mind, I wanted to look into how specific the shade would need to be, but got sidetracked into the definition of colour in itself.
- Pantone Them themselves.
- Pantone - Wikipedia an Overview of what they do and what that means.
- PANTONE Color Cue™ - look, they make tricorders!
- PANTONEbirthdayCOLOR Apparently I'm Piquant Green.(solid, interesting, persistent) How about you? (This has been renamed and moved; it is now Colorstrology)
- Pantone to RGB Colour Conversion an easy way to make Pantone-ish colours online.
- Printing rules for MasterCard Not strictly related, but still on the anal level of control brandmasters like to have over their image.
- Pantone Flag Color Palettes - PMS 186 and PMS 280 Red, white and blue flags- but which shades?
- Colour in Motion a nice little animated look at colour theory.
Pantone's colour prediction
- Pantone - trend watch [PDF] Moving on, what colours will be in this season? According to Pantone, this year I will mostly be wearing Pumice Stone, Bolder & Zinc.
- Wired 10.10 Living Color - a look at Pantone's business, its monopoly on colour, and its plans for the future (as shown in the above PDF).
Update- Colour clash
Update: 13th August: The recent announcement by EasyGroup that they planned to move into the mobile phone biz brought me back onto the original topic. Can you 'own' a colour?
- BBC NEWS | Magazine | Can you 'own' a colour?
- The UK Patent Office - Designs - What is a Design? So yes, you can.
- Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Stelios plans no-frills mobile business
With this in mind, EasyGroup's attitude towards Orange considering they both use Pantone #151 is a bit rich when you look at what they do to people who dare to put 'easy' in front of their name...
