Starting now, popular Adobe applications such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign will no longer support Pantone proprietary colors for free. Those who want those colors to appear in their save files they will have to pay a separate license.
The Pantone company invented the Pantone Color Matching System, which is widely used by designers around the world to ensure that the color of a creation is exactly as desired, no matter where or how it is made. By becoming the industry standard for color matching, the company claims to own all of its 2.161 shades.
Pantone licenses their colors so you can't use them in Photoshop if you don't pay
It is inevitable to think that it will defend and capitalize on its intellectual property, thereby preventing its unlicensed use. This extends to the point of preventing others from creating color systems.compatible with Pantone» if they don't pay a license fee. Last year, Adobe announced that it was removing Pantone color books from its software, which would greatly affect the design world by removing access to standardized colors. Shortly after, it said it would work on an alternative solution.
According to Pantone, the two companies began working together in the 90s, but since 2010, Pantone color libraries within Pantone applications Adobe have not been updated. Therefore, hundreds of new Pantone colors are missing, so together with Adobe, they have decided to eliminate the obsolete libraries.
The removal of Pantone colors from Adobe software was scheduled for March 31 this year. But it has been delayed so that the effects are just now starting to be noticed. To have the Pantones colors, there is an Adobe plugin for, according to their words, "mMinimize workflow disruption and provide up-to-date libraries to Adobe Creative Cloud users", at a price of fifteen dollars a month. Pantone claims that this update will have "minimal impact on a designer's workflow«, and that existing Creative Cloud files and documents that contain Pantone Color references will retain those color identities and information. But users are reporting that their Photoshop is informing them with a warning about using Pantone colors, with those being replaced with a black color. Others have reported that even attaching a Pantone license within Photoshop the problem is not solved.
Source: Kotaku
