Pantone to HEX Converter

A Pantone code is not a color model. It is a reference to a specific ink, mixed from a proprietary recipe and printed on a specific stock. HEX is light emitted by a screen. Because the two are different physical things, any Pantone to hex figure is a best match rather than a conversion, and the number you get from one source will not exactly agree with the number from another.

The values on this page are the common digital approximations for PANTONE Solid Coated colors. They are close enough to put a brand color into a web page, a slide deck or a prototype. They are not a specification, and they should never be sent to a printer in place of the Pantone code itself.

The same code prints differently on coated and uncoated stock - coated holds ink on the surface and reads brighter, uncoated absorbs it and reads softer and duller. This table covers the Solid Coated set, which is the version most brands standardise on for screen work. If your brand manual specifies an uncoated match, the screen value is usually a little darker and less saturated than the one shown here.

Pantone has also revised its libraries over the years, and codes have been added, renamed and retired. A code that returns nothing here may be from a newer or a specialty library, such as metallic, pastel or a bridge set, which have no reliable screen equivalent at all.

Keep both values in the brand documentation, each with its intended medium: the Pantone code for print, the hex value for screen, and the CMYK recipe for four-color process work. Where a brand has to hold together across all three, the hex value is usually chosen by eye against a physical guide rather than by conversion, and then locked so it does not drift between documents.

If the printed color matters, the only reliable check is a physical one: a Pantone guide under the lighting your audience will see, next to a printed sample of your screen value. Nothing on a screen can confirm what an ink will do.