In a message dated 12/30/2016 10:49:07 P.M. US Mountain Standard Tim, chd at chdickman.com writes: On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 12:21 AM, <COURYHOUSE at aol.com> wrote: Of course it would, but the DEC STD 092 available is not specified in PANTONE, If a later version of the standard used PANTONE then it would be done because PANTONE is the defacto reference today. When did PANTONE become a standard? I saw the following... but that may have been a date for ink maybe not paint? Pantone, as it is today, was founded in 1962, when the company?at the time a small business which manufactured colour cards for cosmetics companies? was bought by Lawrence Herbert, who had been an employee since 1956. He immediately changed its direction, developing the first colour matching system in 1963. Herbert remains the CEO, Chairman, and President of the company. Ed# _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org)