Pantone still states in its out-of-date FAQ that, “This update will have minimal impact on a designer’s workflow. There’s more confusion about what happens to older PSD files using Pantone colors. According to Pantone, the two companies started working together in the 1990s, but “since 2010, the Pantone color libraries within Adobe’s apps have not been updated.” This, apparently, means they’re “significantly out of date and missing hundreds of new Pantone Colors.” (Yes, the company seriously capitalizes “Color.”) This means that, “Pantone and Adobe have together decided to remove the outdated libraries and jointly focus on an improved in-app experience that better serves our users.” The official reasons given haven’t made a great deal of sense. Pantone claimed that it was a joint decision with Adobe while at the same time stating that Adobe hadn’t been updating the colors. Kotaku reports a confused picture regarding the reason for the deal being ended. It's even worse when you are paying multiple times for the same features running in your hardware without any constant cloud or servers' costs for the software developer. I HATE that now everything is trying to be a subscription.ĭon't get me wrong, paying for features once in a while after major upgrades and updates is fine (like how Microsoft Office and Windows used to do when launching multi-year updates), but paying multiple times (each month/year) for exactly the same set of features should not be allowed. This is known as Pantone Connect, and it costs $15/month, or $90/year. Pantone has now ended its deal with Adobe, which means anyone wanting access to the color references will need a separate subscription for a Pantone license. Adobe reached a deal with Pantone to allow the colors to be used free of charge by Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator users. The standard color set is still widely used in the digital age, ensuring that calibrated monitors are showing the exact color selected.Īlthough the colors are an industry standard, the company is a private one, and it owns the intellectual property. Print houses could purchase ink recipes for each color which were guaranteed to match the swatch books. Pantone colors are a standardized set of colors originally used to ensure that the colors of final printed products match the colors designers selected from swatch books. Worse, if you have existing PSD files which use the color set, you may find that they have been replaced with black if you don’t buy the subscription … About Pantone colors
If you want to use the industry-standard colors in future, you’ll need to pay a $15/month subscription. Pantone colors have long been free to use in Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator – but that’s now changed.
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