Which Pantone books should I buy to color matching?

[Duncan Wilkie]

We use the coated version. Most of our vinyls, inks, paints dry glossy. The uncoated chart is for printers that are printing on uncoated stock where the colors go dull.

[Jason Xuereb]

Cheers.

Coated version it is.

[Russell Spencer]

definitely the coated colours, the bridging book is a cross reference between CMYK and pantone colours.

BTW if you see a pantone ref like 495C the ‘c’ means coated or put it another way, gloss.