DC Comics 1982 Color Palette
In 1982, DC Comics produced a palette of their primary colors used in their publications. The image/scan taken from this publication has been making the rounds for a number of years now and I thought I would provide the colors using the current PANTONE® Color Bridge standards for digital and print.
One interesting note: PANTONE® 833 C was designated as one of the colors. This color is part of a subset of discontinued Neon (formerly called Day-Glo™) colors that Pantone retired in 1987. I do not have digital color data for that particular color, due to the fact that Pantone never provided it. However, I have found a 1986 Pantone color guide that contains this color, and the formula ink mix was defined as 50% PANTONE 805 plus 50% PANTONE Warm Red. For representation, I have used the supplied CMYK breakdown to represent this color.
+ – indicates derived values
