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'''Pantone LLC''' (stylized as '''PANTONE''') is an American [[limited liability company]] headquartered in [[Carlstadt, New Jersey]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Horyn |first=Cathy |date=December 20, 2007 |title=Pantone's Color of the Year Is... |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/20/fashion/20COLOR.html |access-date=September 8, 2008 |issn=0362-4331}} "Nonetheless, Pantone's choice of blue iris, or No. 18-3943, got some news media attention last week, which seemed to be partly the objective of the company, which is based in Carlstadt, NJ."</ref> The company is best known for its Pantone Matching System (PMS), a [[patent|proprietary]] [[color space]] used in a variety of industries, notably [[graphic design]], [[fashion design]], [[product design]], [[printing]], and manufacturing and supporting the management of color from design to production, in physical and digital formats, among coated and uncoated materials, cotton, polyester, nylon and plastics.
[[X-Rite]], a supplier of color measurement instruments and software, purchased Pantone for US$180 million in October 2007,<ref>{{Citation | newspaper = Printing talk | url = http://www.printingtalk.com/news/xri/xri117.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081202181819/http://www.printingtalk.com/news/xri/xri117.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = December 2, 2008 | title = Pantone US$180m Acquisition Completion For X-Rite: News from X-Rite }}.</ref> and was itself acquired by [[Danaher Corporation]] in 2012.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/15/idUS141467+15-May-2012+HUG20120515|title=Danaher Corporation Successfully Completes Tender Offer for Shares of X-Rite, Incorporated|date=May 15, 2012|work=[[Reuters]]|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120518155802/https://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/15/idUS141467+15-May-2012+HUG20120515|archive-date=May 18, 2012}}</ref>
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