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Pantone 185 red is 244red 0green and 52blue.

Pantone 32c has green in it which gives it an orange cast.

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The Pantone Matching System (PMS) colors are standards for a wide range of spot colors in printing ink, plastic, and textiles. The company produces swatches as standards of the various colors and provides formulas for mixing the ink colors using the range of mixing colors that they have defined. Red 032 is one of those mixing colors -- it is NOT a Process Color.

Pantone has also defined standards for Process Yellow, Process Magenta, Process Cyan, and Process Black -- CMYK.

Color standards are further complicated by video screen colors being RGB — Red, Green and Blue light which in equal amounts equal white — just the opposite of inks where equal amounts produce black by obscuring the white of the paper.

Theoretically the conversion from one system to the other and to paper is very straightforward, BUT it is very hard to produce inks and toners that are of the exact correct color, papers are not always a neutral balanced white, it's very difficult to mechanically produce and position the right amount of each color — often in microscopic dots, and even the order in which the inks or toners are deposited make a difference. Then there is the human eye that can detect the change of a fraction of a percent of one of the colors.

Trying to imitate specific PMS colors with process colors can be a study in futility. Some can be matched very closely, but for others, even using the percentages of process colors suggested by Pantone will not be even close.

Cyan is sometimes referred to as "blue" and magenta as "red." When I first started doing color separations, an important question was whether the pressman would be using Rubine Red or Rhodamine Red ink for the magenta. Today's ink-makers have standardized on a magenta that is somewhere between the two. Rubine Red and Rhodamine Red continue today along with Red 032 and Warm Red as mixing colors in the Pantone Matching System.

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Pantone name some of their colors "Process" in other swatches sets to refer to a particular shade but
Technically, there are only 4 process colors or specifically INK COLOR.
Process Cyan C
Process Magenta C
Process Yellow C
Process Black C

Because "Process Color" means a color created by mixing CMYK so (technically) any shade of red is process red.

CMYK red is shown below in comparison to some other reds.

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