Digital Color Management

X-Rite Pantone Brings Digital Color Management to FIT

Digital color management is transforming apparel and textile production by replacing manual color matching with connected digital workflows that improve accuracy and collaboration across global supply chains. Through its partnership with the Fashion Institute of Technology, X-Rite Pantone is providing students with professional color measurement, quality control, and visual evaluation technologies used by leading fashion brands. The initiative gives future designers and textile professionals practical experience managing color consistently from product design through manufacturing while supporting faster communication between brands, suppliers, and production partners.

For businesses, digital color management can reduce product development timelines, minimize material waste, and improve color consistency across complex manufacturing networks. Standardized digital workflows also strengthen collaboration between geographically dispersed teams while supporting nearshoring and global sourcing strategies. As apparel supply chains become increasingly data-driven, digital color technologies are emerging as an important capability for improving operational efficiency, sustainability, and speed to market.

Image Credit: X-Rite/ Fashion Institute of Technology

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