Lawrence Herbert

Lawrence Herbert is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Pantone®, Inc., a firm best known for the universal standards and multinational color language provided by its publications, software, hardware, and related products and services. After earning a Bachelor of Arts in Biology and Chemistry from Hofstra in 1951, Herbert joined Pantone in 1956 as a color matcher.

He bought the company in 1962, and in 1963 invented the world-renowned Pantone® Matching System®, which became the standard for global communication of color in the printing, publishing, packaging, graphic arts, paint, plastics, coatings, computer, film, video, textile, and fashion industries.