X-Rite digital workflow tools to help manufacturers produce Pantone Color of the Year Courtesy X-Rite Pantone chose two colors of the year for 2021: Ultimate Gray and Illuminating (a yellow shade), and X-Rite Inc. is offering digital tools that will help manufacturers accurately produce the colors. Grand Rapids-based color science and technology expert X-Rite and its sister company Pantone LLC last week said the official spectral color value for PANTONE 17-5104 Ultimate Gray + PANTONE 13-0647 Illuminating is now available in PantoneLIVE, a cloud-based digital color standard ecosystem. PantoneLIVE integrates across X-Rite’s digital workflow tools, allowing brands and their material suppliers to start color matching, formulating and accurately producing Ultimate Gray and Illuminating across textiles, paint and coatings, or plastics.