Color management

The color story often defines a collection identity before the first sketch. Merchandisers and designers spend time aligning on a palette. They decide which shades carry over, which shades are new, and what the main colors are for each division or channel. Without a shared system, the conversation occurs in spreadsheets, PDF swatches, and email threads that quickly fall out of sync.

Color management in PLM for Fashion gives each team member a single, live view of the colors for the season. A merchandiser defines the palette once. The palette can include solid colors, combination colors, or print references. The rest of the business uses the palette. When a color is updated, you can push the change to all products that use the color.

You can add colors to the colors library and you can also add information such as color family, shade, and pantone number.

Listing in this table the features of the colors in the color library:

  • Ability to define a color as solid, combination, or print

    • Solid color to indicate the hexagon, RGB values to create the color content pitch
    • Combination colors to indicate the different colors for the color content pitch
    • Board an image of a print to indicate the print in the color content pitch
  • See a where used
  • Ability to update values and load those new values to the items visible in where used
You can also add colors from the color library to color palettes. There are three type of palettes:
  • Normal palette
  • Master palette from which you can create subpalettes
  • Subpalettes
    • You can derive subpalettes from the master palette. The subpalettes are then used for selections to products, BOM