five oh my God why so today's ShortCircuit
is a bit of an oddity it's not a tech product however uh it did cost us a lot
of money so we're gonna milk it as much as we can
oh my God
it's this I have not had much of a chance to
explore these so this is my first time kind of really checking them out
they have numbers on top and inside
instructions we have to stack them properly so that they have a beautiful
Pantone gradient oh I guess I should mention what these are
the best way for me to describe Pantone is essentially the color from your
monitor is not going to be the exact same as a color that comes out of a
printer or comes out of a plastic product
so when we send design files over to our
manufacturers we want to make sure that the samples that we're receiving are
exact with the color that we're expecting using these we can ensure that
our colors come out accurate and correct the first time around over in Creator
Warehouse we use Pantone chips all the time I myself use coated pantones
Bridget and the fashion team use tcx which stands for textile cotton extended
codes and then over in the engineering team they were kind of missing out so we
ended up splurging and buying these plastic Pantone chips which is what
we'll be checking out today these are a little more difficult to put
together than I had expected but I guess that that's maybe just user error
because this is the first time I'm doing this now the Pantone booklets that I use
the coated ones uh those can cost upwards of 400 USD so obviously all of
the Pantone products are expensive but to be fair Pantone has to make sure that
all of the colors come out exactly how they are supposed to for these booklets
in particular Pantone recommends that you switch it out every 12 to 18 months
just because the colors will fade eventually with them rubbing around or
getting Sun bleached whereas these
plastic chips obviously since they're solid color
um they last quite a bit longer oh I forgot the the little lazy Susan on the
bottom there we go I will say as a designer I
wholeheartedly appreciate everything Pantone designs and makes because it
really does make our job a lot easier with our screwdriver uh it has a end cap
and a beauty ring and we had gone through like 20 samples trying to
perfect the color of the beauty ring um and we had gotten to the point where
we were finally fed up we were sending them the coated solid coated Pantone
codes and obviously on paper it's a lot different than it would be on plastic we
finally decided you know what we're spending so much money in samples that
we might as well just splurge and get the Pantone chip so that we can make
sure that our samples are correct the first time around now one thing I do
really want to talk about is Pantone had launched these color plastic chip books
a while back I believe it was their first ones that they ever launched but
even Pantone says that those are supposed to be used as inspiration
instead of actually being used as reference going with these which are
actual Pantone formulated chips these
were the right way to go even though they cost a couple more thousand dollars
than the books themselves hey I heard you want to be part of this video
what do you think you spent uh ten thousand dollars on these bad boys no I
don't want to talk about that part actually I do want to talk about that
part why
we need them to make sure oh okay well
would you prefer that we get hundreds of different samples trying to get the
right color or we get the right color first time around because we have a chip
to reference that's a lot of greens why do we even need this many greens the
difference between this green and this green like look at them no I want you to
look at them okay Miss color okay okay
here we go we got a okay we got B okay
okay now I'm gonna shuffle them
oh no which one was this that was
a I don't actually know you could be right I think B was a little more yellow
okay no wait I don't even know but are different you
can't tell me those look the same looking I'm completely different a
completely different depends on the angle of the light hitting them but sure
how are these even labeled oh oh
I want you to be part of this part okay so you would think these beautiful ten
thousand dollar I'm gonna keep reminding you of the price because that's quite extravagant these beautiful ten thousand
dollar chips okay you would expect them to have an index right because they've
got their numbers but obviously each Pantone is labeled differently yeah so
that's the thing yeah why doesn't number 13 say 13 anywhere why would it do that
that would be stupid okay but you know what else is stupid Linus
so the way that you can figure out which number
goes with which you're not going to believe this I couldn't believe this
here's your index oh my God who uses these anymore I know
and I don't even know what the software looks like for this yet we're gonna have
to figure it out world's most expensive wheel yeah take
that Lamborghini like man you know you got little kids
it's like what's your favorite color Sarah's gonna be like
TQ 2416c no I will say my favorite Pantone
code for a while was 14.95 which is a beautiful like lemony orange color
that would be in this pile here which is our our oranges and red stack which is
still in the box orange and red because it takes 10 minutes to stack these
things what the hell bring it on over oh
look at that we got some falling out fellow yeah yep now I need a CD drive to
know where it goes okay so sorry what's your favorite pants
14.95 what kind of nerd has a favorite Pantone
code designers actually in the comments
let us know what your favorite Pantone code is I also don't really like
understand how it's sorted to be honest with you
like it's not necessarily sorted strategically it's just sorted by like
color shade I'm gonna pick this this is pretty good
I like 320. nice let's make a screwdriver in that color so it's not
about how much you spend on samples it's about the opportunity cost of waiting
around for those samples every week that screwdriver gets delayed could be
costing us tens of thousands of dollars so being able to just say hey
go get this chip if it doesn't look like that it's not good enough instead of
having them send it to us for approval send it back to them try again send it
to us these processes take weeks we're never gonna find that color no we're not
but we didn't even get it 14.95 yeah oh there it is yeah oh but
that doesn't tell us where to find this on here no no I told you the
use the disk drive oh my God yeah what
the hell so they've all got numbers except for some this is PQ warm red C
that was my that was my brand color in school PQ orange
o21c sure okay see you later Sarah thanks oh I
will oh wow okay so that's one thing I want to mention
is when these were being unboxed for the first time we definitely noticed there
were a lot of chips that fall out and for ten thousand dollars you would hope
that Pantone would focus on making sure that chips stay in that way none of them
get lost or confused with that said another thing is when pulling them out
some of them are a bit sticky
and me who always has clammy hands does
have some difficulty getting them out of the slot
that would have been terrible okay yeah this see how easy this pink is to like
take out it just it just falls out
yeah there's definitely a couple that you can see kind of Wiggle oh yeah see
look at over here up here they're just a little a little too loose
for my liking each color tip costs twenty dollars and five cents USD to
purchase and that's before tax and shipping
move them together forever
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circuit at vessey.com ShortCircuit here I have an ancient artifact uh dating
back to probably 2008 and then this arriving with a 2020 2000 2022 product
like pardon me and they make books and
they don't have the index in book form can you believe that Riley can you
believe that
oh there it is Pantone plus Plastics standard chips collection okay okay it
is in PDF form I take back all my slander these are all PDF forms so I can
simply move them onto my desktop and not have to worry about using the disk
anymore we gotta find 1655c that is our brand color
of course I have to use it all the time
so we've got 1655c in tray 2 and it is
number 86. um because Pantone put the numbers on
top of each of these little trays when it says tray two I have to go back to
this form now and figure out which tray is number two which is this one
and now I'll find my Pantone chip
oh there goes another one no it's purple
this is purple Marcus what color is this
no wait it is with the pink Pantone
chips
it does look purple i s I swear this is
like a light lilac 0.0115 violet
and 1.1300 white so it's definitely
purple okay I've got ltd's brand code which is 1655c uh and it says it's Tower
two which is this one we've realized and it is number 86. this is it Pantone 65
16 55c what a beautiful color lastly
let's do a real test let's see if I can
match a Pantone code to an actual product
oh my God this is my SNES controller I want to
color match the gray color here obviously there's only
1755 colors here and there are millions
of color combinations so I can't guarantee that I'm gonna find an exact
match for this color but let's see if we can find a close match at first glance
it's a bit more of a purpley gray so I'm not gonna go to my cooler warm Grays I'm
actually going to go to my purple selectors and my blue selectors so I'll
have to bring this one over as well
oh
lighter but that is pretty close so I might have to
go a little darker if I can another really neat thing about these Pantone
chips is as you can see with this Nest controller
we have a more matte finish to the
controller itself but the buttons have a
gloss finish or a shiny finish and the Pantone chips
offer a matte finish on one side and a
gloss finish on the other side it's really awesome and extremely useful for
all of the products that we've been working on I honestly think I found it I
don't see anything closer I'm gonna say maybe these two
this one is closer just because it's a tad darker hopefully this unboxing was
not only informative but also gave you an idea as to the kind of workflow and
things that we do over in Creator Warehouse while these Pantone chips are
expensive they are incredibly useful for our day-to-day work and I don't know I
hope you enjoy it yeah sign up for the LTT screwdriver and
backpack and if you want to watch another expensive unboxing go watch the
Porsche tycan video thanks bye