Pantone Shades has three main sections:

1. Pantone Metallic Color Shades
   

   Pantone Metallics Colors now in the plus series can be found in the form of a fan-shaped Pantone Metallics Color Guide or in the form of a chips book with specialized coated metallic chips called the Pantone Metallics Chips Book Coated Set. Pantone Metallics Color Book has the metallic colors coated on standard paper giving a true feel and look of the colors on a hard-coated metallic sheet. Pantone Metallics Books are ideal users in the packaging industry, steel & car manufacturers, metallic bearings and accessories producers. Color number range from 871C to 8965C.
   
   Pantone Premium Metallics Colors like the Pantone Metallic Colors has Colored pantone shades in the particular coated form, giving a high-end metallic feel on the color books. These books have a metallic coating to prevent discoloring, rust, oxidize, corrode, stain, dull or blacken, thus giving a 100% Pantone Metallic look and feel. This guide and premium metallics chips book is used for palette colors mixing, mood board designing, and concept- structure building for color specification, distribution, and evaluation. Color numbers range from 9000 series to 10000 series.

2. Pantone Pastel Color Shades
   

   Pantone Pastels & Neon has the light pale, softening- light, light-colored, muted colors, subtle & neon, subdued blues & greens, soft-hued pinks and yellow for working on a the light-bright shades of pantone. The spot colors in the pastels and neon colors are present in the Pastels & Neon Color Guide as well the Pastel and Neon Chips book which has six terable chips for each color thus giving it a multi purpose use. Mainly used for branding and packaging puposes. Colors range from 0131C to 8000 series.

3. Pantone Color Chart CMYK
   

   The Pantone CMYK Guide in the Coated & Uncoated format has all the process colors of Pantone and cannot be matched with Pantone spot colors of Metallics & Pastels & Neon. CMYK formulation is given on each of the unique 16 colors on each page. These colors also cannot be matched with the solid colors with the help of the Pantone Color Bridge Guide. The Pantone CMYK Color Guide is a must for all printers and ink manufacturers who use the CMYK formulation to develop their colors.

4. RGB to Pantone Process Color Book

   The Pantone Color Bridge Guides are a unique set of guides which are used to find the closest colors of the solid colors and the CYMYK Colors when kept side by side. Thus the solid colors can now be represented and produced in the CMYK as well as RGB formulations. Each RGB color its corresponding CMYK color and wording is present, thus acting as a bridge. Pantone Color Bridge Guide is the only guide that offers both HTML/CMYK and RGB values for Pantone graphics spot colors out of all the other Pantone Guides & Chip Books.