The PANTONE Plastic Chip Color Set Blues is a professional plastics colour reference for designers, product developers, industrial manufacturers and colour decision-makers working with blue plastic tones. Presented in a single rotating carousel, the set contains 100 carefully selected blue Pantone plastic chips for precise colour communication, palette development and production control.
Blue is one of the most important colour families in product design. It can express trust, technology, clarity, freshness, performance, calmness or medical precision depending on shade, material, finish and context. From deep navy and technical blue to bright primary blue, aquatic tones and softer blue-based shades, the category is widely used across beauty packaging, food and beverage, consumer electronics, medical devices, toys, fashion accessories, hard home products and industrial components.
This Pantone plastics set provides a physical standard for evaluating blue directly in polypropylene. Polypropylene is one of the most widely referenced plastic materials and offers a practical basis for colour development in real-world plastics workflows. A plastic chip gives a more relevant impression of material colour than a paper guide or digital value alone, especially when the final product will be moulded, coated, assembled or viewed under changing light conditions.
Each chip measures approximately 3 × 1.9 inches, or around 7.5 × 5 cm. The large format supports confident visual evaluation and is suitable for instrumental measurement with a spectrophotometer. This makes the set useful not only during creative colour selection, but also for supplier communication, quality control, sampling and production approval.
The chips include two thickness levels of 1 mm and 2 mm. This feature is important because colour in plastics is affected by more than pigment alone. Wall thickness, opacity, translucency, light transmission and part geometry can all change the visible result. A blue that appears bright and clean in a thinner area may look deeper or more saturated in a thicker component. The two-tier structure helps teams evaluate these effects before production decisions are locked.
Each chip is double-sided with gloss and matte finishes. Surface finish has a major influence on how blue is perceived. Gloss can intensify depth, clarity and reflection, while matte can make a colour appear softer, more technical or more premium depending on the product category. By showing both finishes on the same standard, the set allows teams to compare colour and surface effect together.
Every chip is marked with its Pantone colour number and/or name. This supports clear communication between design teams, manufacturers, suppliers and quality-control departments. Instead of describing a colour as “medium blue”, “cool blue” or “packaging blue”, teams can reference a defined Pantone plastics standard and reduce interpretation errors during development.
The Plastic Chip Color Sets are designed to match Pantone Graphics PMS colour communication, making it easier to coordinate plastics with printed packaging, labels, logos and other graphic elements. This is especially valuable for brands that need consistency across different materials. A consumer electronics housing, a printed carton, a user manual, an accessory and a digital identity system may all need to feel connected within one controlled colour family.
For beauty and personal care, blue plastics can communicate purity, hydration, dermatological expertise or freshness. In food and beverage, they may support chilled, aquatic or functional product cues. In consumer electronics, blue can suggest technology, performance or energy. In medical devices, controlled blue tones can help communicate precision, cleanliness and reliability. For toys and lifestyle products, blue offers both familiar and expressive colour directions.
The rotating carousel makes the set practical for professional studio and workplace use. The base allows quick colour location, simple comparison and easy chip replacement. The carousel format keeps all 100 blue chips organised while still allowing individual standards to be removed for presentations, palette boards, material reviews or supplier handover.
A key-ring hole in the upper corner of each chip supports project-specific palette building. Designers can select relevant blues for a product family, arrange them on a ring, attach them to development boards or send them to manufacturing partners. This flexibility is useful when several tones must be evaluated together across different components, finishes or product lines.
Index information supports both numeric and chromatic navigation. This makes it easier to locate an established Pantone reference or compare neighbouring blue shades within the collection. For product design teams, the ability to move systematically through related blues can accelerate palette development and reduce uncertainty in shade selection.
Pigment formulation information provides manufacturers with a clearer technical starting point for reproducing the selected colour. This can reduce trial and error during sampling and support more efficient communication with plastics suppliers. Final production should still be validated in the intended polymer, process, surface finish, component thickness and moulding conditions, because all of these factors can influence the finished colour.
The PANTONE Plastic Chip Color Set Blues is designed for professional environments where plastic colour must be specified, evaluated and reproduced with precision. It connects creative colour intent with manufacturing reality and supports more consistent decisions across design, development, sourcing, quality control and production.
For brands, designers and manufacturers working with blue plastic components, this set offers a focused and practical reference system. It helps teams select commercially relevant blue shades, communicate them clearly across supply chains and evaluate them in a material format that is closer to real product production than paper or screen-based colour references.
Key Benefits
- 100 selected Pantone blue plastic colours
- Large polypropylene chips for professional evaluation
- Chip size approximately 3 × 1.9 inches / 7.5 × 5 cm
- Suitable for spectrophotometer measurement
- Two material thicknesses: 1 mm and 2 mm
- Double-sided chips with gloss and matte finishes
- Rotating carousel for easy colour selection
- Key-ring hole for project-specific palette building
- Pantone colour number and/or name on each chip
- Supports matching plastics to PMS print and packaging colours
- Numeric and chromatic index information included
- Useful for palette development and supplier communication
- Relevant for beauty, electronics, toys, medical and home products
- Supports plastics manufacturing and quality control
- Professional reference for blue plastic colour specification
FAQ
What is included in the PANTONE Plastic Chip Color Set Blues?
The set contains 100 blue polypropylene plastic chips organised in a single rotating carousel for professional plastics colour selection and specification.
Why are the chips made from polypropylene?
Polypropylene is a widely referenced plastic material, making it a practical standard for visualising and communicating colour in plastic product development.
What size are the blue plastic chips?
Each chip measures approximately 3 × 1.9 inches, or around 7.5 × 5 cm, large enough for visual comparison and spectrophotometer measurement.
Why do the chips have two thicknesses?
The 1 mm and 2 mm areas help users evaluate how wall thickness, opacity and material depth influence the appearance of blue plastic colours.
Why are matte and gloss finishes included?
Surface finish changes colour perception. The double-sided matte and gloss chips allow teams to assess each blue under two common plastic finish conditions.
Which industries use this blue plastics colour set?
It is used in product design, plastics manufacturing, beauty packaging, food and beverage, consumer electronics, fashion accessories, hard home, toys, medical devices and design education.