Pantone Colors

RGB is for screens. CMYK is for paper printing. Pantone TCX is specifically for fabric — dyed textile standards with known lightfastness, washfastness, and behaviour across different fibre types. If you're producing anything on fabric (printed, dyed, or woven), your colour specifications need to be in Pantone TCX, not RGB or CMYK.

Our Pantone TCX Colour Finder takes any input — hex code, RGB triplet, or a colour you pick from an uploaded image — and returns the closest Pantone TCX match along with the ΔE (colour difference) measured using CIEDE2000, the current industry-standard algorithm. If the ΔE is under 1.0, the match is visually indistinguishable; under 2.0, acceptable for most production; above 3.0, noticeably different.

The tool returns the top 10 closest matches because the 'closest in ΔE' isn't always the right choice. The #2 match might be a warmer undertone that reads better in daylight. The #3 might be a cleaner white-base rather than cream-base. Experienced textile designers evaluate all top candidates and pick the one with the right visual character, not just the lowest Delta.

Who uses this? Textile designers specifying colourways for manufacturers, fashion brands handing off seasonal palettes, print-on-demand sellers matching screen designs to dyed fabrics, embroidery digitisers selecting thread colours, and quality-control teams validating production samples against brand-specified Pantones.