Myhotel Cmyk Ratchada

Our room was #404, also identified as a yellowish Pantone “York.” And both being designers, this is where we must severely criticize the CMYK Hotel. On the globally accepted Pantone scale used for matching the myriad of CMYK colors, Pantone 404 is not a yellow, it actually is a hue of grey. The yellow on our room key would be known as “Pantone 137 Yolk,” and not as “York,” a mistake more forgivable in China, or Japan, but not so much in Thailand. I can imagine how the designers of the hotel thought that giving each room the matching color on the Pantone scale, until they realized that the system would have turned our 4th floor into 20 shades of grey, and how they deiced that “it’s still a great idea, and the client won’t notice.” And I guess one had to be a designer to criticize.