We used to spec a spot Pantone 485 as a fifth plate on kid cereal boxes so the mascot’s red stayed clean at 150 lpi and, under D50, the hue didn’t drift with TAC changes… It also let us keep dense panels under 300% while trapping stayed tidy around 6 pt type — got other examples of brands that ran a dedicated fifth for color accuracy?
Coke ran a dedicated Coke Red plate on 12‑pack cartons at 150 lpi under D50 so the ribbon red stayed true. > also let us keep dense panels under 300% while trapping stayed tidy around 6 pt type — same here; it kept the ribbon edge crisp around the 6 pt legal and avoided muddy traps. We eventually hit it with CMYK+OGV and heavy GCR without a spot after a painful press fingerprint — ; did you ever try OGV or stick with the fifth?