Digital Tint Selector

Colors for printing should be chosen by referring to a printed tint chart rather than by selecting directly from the screen. The tint chart should ideally be printed on the same paper as you are using for the final reproduction, and printed by the same process.

The Tint Selector has 11 pages, in the form of a CMYK PDF file. The combinations of cyan and magenta (from 0 - 100% in steps of 10%) are the same on every page. Each page has a different amount of yellow (also in steps of 10% from 0 - 100%) on the whole page.

Download the Tint Selector

You can produce your own printed tint selector by printing this file from a page layout program to an output device - your imagesetter or platesetter for making films or printing plates, or direct to your digital color printer.