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Color Specification Best Practices for Apparel, Footwear & Soft Good Brands

April 29, 2025 10am EST Your Desk!

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Learn Color Specification Best Practices for Apparel, Footwear & Soft Good Brands

Join us for the first webinar in our educational series to learn ways to specify and communicate precise color data with global suppliers to reduce errors and enhance overall productivity.

Color specification can be time consuming, painstaking to manage, and leave room for interpretation. To be successful, apparel, footwear, and soft good brands need to communicate design colors in an objective way that enables suppliers to match the design intent.

You Will Learn:

  • The most common challenges associated with using physical color standards
  • How digital color standards can improve color accuracy and consistency
  • Best practices to streamline your color library for a single source of truth
  • Helpful tips to specify, manage, and communicate custom and private brand colors
  • Easy-to-use solutions to manage color communication and approval

Additional Webinars in the Series

In this 4-part webinar series, we will introduce key components and best practices to help footwear and apparel brands keep up with customer trends, maintain costs, build positive relationships with suppliers, and meet sustainability initiatives.

Join us for these other educational webinars to learn tips to combat color issues in your footwear and apparel specification and production workflow.

Speaker

Pieter Mulder

Director of Global Brand Accounts, X-Rite Pantone

Pieter Mulder has concentrated his career on international business development and global account management, with a focus on brands and global supply chains. As the Director of Global Brand Accounts, Mulder helps apparel, footwear, and soft good brands implement, manage, and sustain a digital color workflow throughout local, regional, and global supply chains. With Mulder’s help, brands can protect brand integrity, get to market 75% faster, and dramatically reduce waste and Co2 to meet sustainability goals.

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