Pantone Huey

Pantone’s Huey makes it easy to get consistent colour results time after time.

If you’ve ever tried to match how your digital photos look on screen to how they emerge when printed, you will need to make sure your display is calibrated correctly.

Many software tools are available, but most require a keen eye and plenty of manual tweaking. There’s also no reliable way of verifying the results.

Huey performs all the necessary measurements and adjustments for you in only a few seconds, and then creates a colour profile that can be understood by Windows and all colour management-aware applications, such as Adobe Photoshop.

The software is simple to operate with a friendly user interface and easy to follow instructions. Just fix the device to your screen using the suction cups and wait for calibration to complete.

At the end of the operation you can choose from a short menu of different colour options according to your intended use or personal preference.

When not in use, Huey sits in a small USB cradle but is far from idle. At configurable intervals it will measure the ambient light in your room and adjust the display accordingly.

Huey does its best to shield you from the technical complexities of colour calibration. It won’t tell you what colour temperature or gamma you have selected.

Instead, it leaves it purely to your eyes and preference by providing presets for photo editing or gaming as well as options such as warm and cool, with various levels of contrast.

Notably absent is any help in adjusting your monitor’s controls prior to calibration, which is a vital, if irksome, step in getting the most from your display. Nor will you find multi-monitor support.

Despite this, Huey is a useful and very reasonably-priced tool for getting you on the road to a consistent colour workflow.