Sherwin Williams to PMS

[Finishline Signs]

Does anyone know of a chart that comverts Sherwin Williams paint numbers to Pantone numbers. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Stuart

 

[SebastienL]

maybe this is what your looking for:

http://www.sherwin-williams.com/do_it_yourself/paint_colors/paint_color_palette/downloadable_palettes/

 

[Finishline Signs]

I found that but I was really looking for something that would give me the equivilent PMS number for a Sherwin Williams number.

 

[SebastienL]

If it's not on the Sherwin-William site, I doubt it will be anywhere else.

But their palette seem to give an RGB value. From that value, Photoshop will give you a Pantone equivalent when using the color picker.

The only other solution I see is comparing the SW swatch to a PMS swatch.

 

[tanneji]

I have a script that converts CMYK to PMS ... so I take the sherwin williams number, convert to CMYK and then use this script to convert from CMYK to PMS. It's been working pretty well so far ... let me see if i can attach it somehow

 

[tanneji]

Here ya go ... its on this page

http://vectips.com/tricks/10-free-and-extremely-useful-illustrator-scripts/

 

[weaselboogie]

I recently had to do this backwards. My local sw store was a bit dumbfounded when I was able to do this from their site.

 

[signswi]

Stick your spectrodensitometer on the paint swatch, done. I.E. an X-Rite 530 or whatever.

 

[Finishline Signs]

If it's not on the Sherwin-William site, I doubt it will be anywhere else.

But their palette seem to give an RGB value. From that value, Photoshop will give you a Pantone equivalent when using the color picker.

The only other solution I see is comparing the SW swatch to a PMS swatch.

I guess this is what I will do. Thanks for the help.

 

[SebastienL]

I'd still compare both swatch, just to make sure.

 

[Moze]

Resurrecting this thread in hopes of getting help.

I have two Sherwin Williams colors that I need PMS colors for:

Neutral Ground SW7568
Black Magic SW6991

Is there a way to convert these?

Nix Color Sensor maybe? Mine doesn't work so no dice on my end...

 

[shoresigns]

We put them side by side in real life and use our eyes.

 

[equippaint]

From my experience, sw cant convert a pms color to paint and vice versa. We went through this on a job that we were given a pms as a paint color. I had to track down a pms chart (sw didnt have one) then bring it in for an eyeball match.

 

[Moze]

Thank you for the responses.

 

[visual800]

I always do a side by side and close is perfect to me. Dont get too lost in a 100% actual match when doing this

 

[10sacer]

You need to compare the swatches in the actual light where the replicated color will be used or there could be a big surprise later on.

 

[Moze]

10-4 to all of the above.

My hopes were someone had a method via software, etc. I believe Nix has a way of doing it but WHEN THE THING NEVER WORKED CORRECTLY IN THE FIRST PLACE - it doesn't make much of a difference.

Anyway, thanks for the responses, colors have been picked and the job is in production.