Most people won’t have a use for Benjamin Moore’s new $300 Pocket Palette, but there’s no disputing it’s a pretty bitchin’. The Pocket Palette electronically matches any color to the closest Benjamin Moore sample in their catalog, so instead of carrying around hundreds of swatches to get an exact match, you just hold it up to a wall (or whatever), push a button, and save it for later. It would be better if it matched multiple palettes, like Pantone and all those other commercial and non-commercial (and non-paint) libraries, but it’s a start. In a few months I wouldn’t be surprised to see the very same thing built in a generic version.
Read – Pocket Palette [JoshRubin]
What do you know? Pantone does have one. More info after the jump.
Josh Puleo writes:
There is a product called the ColorCue from Pantone that is similar in form and function to the Pocket Palette, but this gives you Pantone, CMYK, EuroCMYK, sRGB, HTML, etc., values. The price tag is actually lower than the Benjamin Moore thing too.
I have a ColorCue for work and I use it all the time, it rocks.
Read – Product Page [Pantone]
