Process for producing an electronic color information file for color communication, which file includes a data set describing the color impression of one or more color samples, whereby the at least one data set is made available in a processor and stored in a preselected data format in the color information file, so that all the information data associated with the color samples and identifying, characterizing or supplementing the color samples, are stored as information data containing data objects in an open, expandable, hierarchically organized object structure in the color information file.