- Five. (Sarah laughing) (Sarah screaming) Oh my God. - Why? - So today's ShortCircuit
is a bit of an oddity. It's not a tech product. However, it did cost us a lot of money so we're gonna milk it as much as we can. - [Jono] You good?
(Sarah laughing) Oh my God, you're gonna break it. (Sarah laughing) - Oh no. It's this. (Sarah and Jono laughing) I have not had much of a
chance to explore these. So this is my first time kind
of really checking them out. They have numbers on top and inside, instructions. We have to stack them properly so that they have a
beautiful Pantone gradient. Oh, I guess I should
mention what these are. (Sarah laughing) The best way for me to describe Pantone is essentially the color from your monitor is not gonna be the exact same as a color that comes out of a printer or comes out of a plastic product. So when we send design files
over to our manufacturers, we wanna make sure that the
samples that we're receiving are exact with the color
that we're expecting. Using these, we can ensure
that our colors come out accurate and correct the first time round. Over in Creator Warehouse, we use Pantone chips all the time. I myself use coded Pantones. Bridget and the fashion team use TCX which stands for textile
cotton extended codes. And then over in the engineering team, they were kind of missing out. So we ended up splurging and buying these plastic Pantone chips which is what we'll be checking out today. These are a little more difficult to put together than I had expected, but I guess that's maybe just user error 'cause this is the first
time I'm doing this. Now the Pantone booklets
that I use, the coded ones, those can cost upwards of $400 USD, so obviously all of the
Pantone products are expensive, but to be fair, Pantone has to make sure that all of the colors come out exactly how they are supposed to. For these booklets in particular, Pantone recommends that you switch it out every 12 to each months just because the colors
will fade eventually with them rubbing around
or getting sunbleached. Whereas these plastic chips, obviously, since they're solid color,
they last quite a bit longer. Oh, I forgot the little
Lazy Susan on the bottom. There we go. Woo! I will say, as a designer, I wholeheartedly appreciate everything Pantone designs and makes because it really does
make our job a lot easier. With our screwdriver, it has a end cap and a beauty ring. And we had gone through like 20 samples trying to perfect the
color of the beauty ring. And we had gotten to the point
where we were finally fed up. We were sending them the
solid, coded Pantone codes. And obviously on paper, it's a lot different than
it would be on plastic. We finally decided, you know what, we're spending
so much money in samples that we might as well just
splurge and get the Pantone chip so that we can make sure that our samples are correct
the first time around. Now, one thing I do
really wanna talk about is Pantone had launched these
color plastic chip books a while back. I believe it was their first
ones that they ever launched. But even Pantone says that
those are supposed to be used as inspiration instead of actually
being used as reference. Going with these, which are
actual Pantone-formulated chips, these were the right way to go even though they cost a
couple more thousand dollars than the books themselves. Hey, I heard you wanna
be part of this video. What do you think? You spent $10,000 on these bad boys. - No, I don't wanna talk about that part. (Sarah and crew laughing) Actually, I do wanna talk about that part. Why? (Sarah laughing) - Well, obviously we
need them to make sure- (Linus laughing) - Okay. - Well, would you prefer that we get hundreds of different samples trying to get the right color or we get the right
color first time around because we have a chip to reference? - God, that's a lot of greens. Why do we even need this many greens? - I mean, who knows? - What's the difference between
this green and this green? - Look at them. - No, I want you to look at them, okay? Ms. Colour. Okay, okay.
(Sarah laughing) Here we go. We got A. - [Sarah] Okay. - [Linus] We got B. - [Sarah] Okay. - [Linus] Okay? Now I'm gonna shuffle them. (Sarah laughing) - Oh no. - Which one was this? - That was A. - I don't actually know. You could be right. - I think B was a little more yellow. Okay, no, wait. (Linus laughing) I don't even know. But they are different. You can't tell me those look the same. - [Linus] No. - [Sarah] Look at it in the thing. They're completely different.
- [Linus] I mean, completely different depends on the angle of the light hitting them, but sure.
(Sarah laughing) How are these even labeled? - That, oh, oh. - What is happening? - I want you to be part of this part. Okay, so you would think
these beautiful $10,000, I'm gonna keep reminding you of the price.
(Linus groans) Because that's quite extravagant. These beautiful $10,000 chips, okay? You would expect them
to have an index, right? - Yeah. - Because they've got their numbers, but obviously each Pantone
is labeled differently. - [Linus] Yeah, so that's the thing. - Yeah. - Why doesn't number 13
say 13 anywhere on it? - Nope. - Why would it do that? That'd be stupid. - Okay, but you know what
else is stupid, Linus? So the way that you can figure out which number goes with which, you're not gonna believe this. I couldn't believe this. Here's your index. - Oh my God. Who uses these anymore? - I know. And I don't even know what the software looks like for this yet. We're gonna have to figure it out. - [Linus] Whee! - World's most expensive wheel. Yeah, take that, Lamborghini. (Sarah laughing) Like, man, you know, you got little kids. It's like, what's your favorite color? Sarah's gonna be like, "(beep) TQ2416C, (beep)." - No, I will say my favorite Pantone code for a while was 1495 which is a beautiful
like lemony orange color. That would be in this pile here, which is our oranges and reds stack, which is still in the box. - Orange and red stack? - Because it takes 10 minutes
to stack these things. (Sarah laughing)
- [Linus] What the hell? - Bring it on over. Oh, look at that. We got some falling out over.
- Oh no, it fell out. - Yep, yep. - Now I need a CD drive
to know where it goes. (Sarah laughing) - Yeah, exactly. Yay!
- Okay, so sorry, what's your favorite Pantone? - 1495. (Sarah laughing) - What kind of nerd has
a favorite Pantone code? - Designers. Actually, in the comments, let us know what your
favorite Pantone code is. - I also don't really like understand how it's sorted, to be honest with you. - It's not necessarily
sorted strategically. It's just sorted by like color shade. - I'm gonna pick this. This is pretty good. I like 320C.
- 320, nice. Let's make a screwdriver in that color. - So it's not about how
much you spend on samples. It's about the opportunity cost of waiting around for those samples. Every week that screwdriver gets delayed could be costing us tens
of thousands of dollars. So being able to just say, "Hey, go get this chip. If it doesn't look like
that, it's not good enough." Instead of having them
send it to us for approval, send it back to them,
try again, send it to us. These processes take weeks. We're never gonna find that color again. - No, we're not. - I bet we didn't even get it. (Sarah laughing) 1495. - Yeah.
- Oh, well, there it is. - There it is, yeah. - [Linus] Oh, but that doesn't tell us where to find this on here. - No, no, no. I told you the only index-
- What? - Is the disc drive. - Oh my God.
- Yeah. - What the hell? So they've all got
numbers except for some. This is PQ-WARMREDC. - That was my brand color in school. - PQ-ORANGE021C. Sure. Okay, see you later, Sarah. Enjoy.
- Thanks. Oh, I will. Oh, well, okay. So that's one thing I wanna mention is when these were being
unboxed for the first time, we definitely noticed
there were a lot of chips that fall out and for $10,000, you would hope that Pantone would focus on
making sure that chips stay in. That way, none of them
get lost or confused. With that said, another thing
is when pulling them out, some of them are a bit sticky and me, who always has clammy hands, does have some difficulty
getting them out of the slot. - [Jono] Whoa, oh my God! - See, I told you. (Sarah screaming) Oh my God. (Sarah laughing) That would've been terrible. Okay, yeah, see how easy this
pink is to like take out? It just falls out. Yeah, there's definitely a couple that you can see kinda wiggle. Oh yeah, see, look it, over here. Up here. They're just a little
too loose for my liking. Each color chip costs $20
and 5 cents USD to purchase. And that's before tax and shipping. (Sarah grunting) (crew member laughing) Here's all of them together forever. Altogether, there's
approximately 1,755 chips. That includes neons,
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at vessi.com/shortcircuit. Here I have an ancient artifact dating back to probably 2008 and then this arriving with a
2022 product, like pardon me? And they make books and they don't have
the index in book form. Can you believe that? Riley, can you believe that? - [Riley] Oh, how could
they not have the index in book form? - Yeah, look at this. When was the last time
you seen one of these? - [Riley] Oh, we're gonna
sue them into the ground! (Sarah laughing) - Oh, there it is. Pantone Plus Plastic
Standard Chips Collection. Okay, okay. It is in PDF form. I take back all my slander. These are all PDF form so I can simply move them onto my desktop and not have to worry about
using the disc anymore. We gotta find 1655C. That is our brand color. - [Jono] Have you memorized that? - Of course. I have to use it all the time. So we've got 1655C in tray 2 and it is number 86. Because Pantone put the numbers on top of each of these little trays, when it says tray 2, I have
to go back to this form now and figure out which tray is number 2, which is this one, and now I'll find my Pantone chip. (Sarah groaning) Oh, there goes another one. - [Jono] It's that pink one. - No, it's purple. - [Jono] That's pink! - This is purple. Marcus, what color is this? - [Marcus] Pink. - No! Wait. It is with the pink Pantone chips. (Sarah laughing) (crew laughing) But it does look purple. I swear, this is like a light lilac. 0.0115% violet and 1.1300% white. So it's definitely purple. Okay, I've got LTT's brand code which is 1655C and it says it's tower 2, which
is this one we've realized, and it is number 86. This is it. Pantone 1655C. What a beautiful color. Lastly, let's do a real test. Let's see if I can match a Pantone code to an actual product. Oh my God. I'm so sorry. This is my SNES controller. I wanna color match the gray color here. Obviously, there's only 1,755 colors here and there are millions
of color combinations. So I can't guarantee that I'm gonna find an exact match for this color, but let's see if we
can find a close match. At first glance, it's a bit more of a purple-y gray. So I'm not gonna go to
my cooler, warm grays. I'm actually gonna go to my purple selectors
and my blue selectors. So I'll have to bring
this one over, as well. (Sarah gasping) - [Crew Member] Oh, that's so cool! (Sarah laughing) - It's a bit lighter, but that is pretty close. So I might have to go a
little darker if I can. Another really neat thing
about these Pantone chips is, as you can see with
this SNES controller, we have a more matte finish
to the controller itself, but the buttons have a gloss
finish or a shiny finish. And the Pantone chips offer
a matte finish on one side and a gloss finish on the other side. It's really awesome and extremely useful
for all of the products that we've been working on. I honestly think I found it. I don't see anything closer. I'm gonna say maybe these two. This one is closer just because it's a tad darker. Hopefully this unboxing
was not only informative but also gave you an idea
as to the kind of workflow and things that we do
over in Creator Warehouse. While these Pantone chips are expensive, they are incredibly useful
for our day-to-day work. And I don't know, I hope you enjoy it. Yeah, sign up for the LTT
screwdriver and backpack. And if you wanna watch
another expensive unboxing, go watch the Porsche Taycan video? Thanks, bye. (Sarah laughing)
