Why:

Nearest Pantone is an API that given a hex color, returns the nearest Pantone color.

It is useful for suppliers or distributors, for filling in the color property of a product in Product data.

How:

We are converting the hex color to RGB, converting this RGB to LAB color space, and then using cie76 distance to find the nearest Pantone color.

We might move to using a KNN model to find the nearest Pantone color if the current approach is not accurate enough.

And customers really start using the API.

The service is available as a GET verb API call.