I have the pantone guide in hand, I just don't have the neons and pastels colour guide so I haven't chosen anything from there. I may get that also at a later date if I decide the greens i'm considering aren't suitable/neon enough. I've also discovered that the pantone colour references in person often look completely different from on pantones website. I'm currently considering using 429c as the mod colour which is a windows95-grey colour. I am still considering 190c, but it looks different in person - I would describe it as salmon pink; whereas in the renders it resembles hot pink. 1775c and 1777c on pantones website look very close to the original colour inspiration; in person they are closer to shades of orange than pink. The issue is that different, more suitable colours that in person seem to match the inspiration for the set when put into renders look like shades of purple for some reason. This is also the case for how they look on the website. That is unless my monitor is very colour inaccurate, but I doubt that since I have recorded video of the pantone guides and it looks almost exactly the same on my screen as in my hands. I am worried about the renders not being representative.
This is the video of a range of pantone pinks vs pantone 190c
This is a video of pantone pinks vs 1777c and 1775c
This is a render of the basekit using 1775c as the alpha colour; it looks pink (irl it's a orange/pink 'skintone' colour)
This is a render of the basekit using 1777c; it looks red/pink (irl it's an orange-pink colour)
A render using 190c as the alpha colour and a different legend colour than the previous two renders
The first two basekit renders are using 3375c and the 190c render is using 2253c. I like both so my choice will be one of these unless I use something from the neon colour guide. I am also going to get renders done of the basekit using pantone 2038c and 2037c for alphas as these look similar in real life to what is on pantones website and are also close to the original inspiration in colour in person.