PANTONE COLOUR NO LONGER AVAILABLE IN ADOBE SOFTWARE

Since the start of my design career in 2000s, Pantone has assisted designers in matching the colours they see onscreen to what they see in the real world. Because of this colour standardization process, a poster created in Adobe InDesign will look precisely the same whether printed as a large billboard. It work perfectly fine until last week, when everything went dark.

Adobe had decided that we need to pay $15usd a month to access them. What the fxxx!

It was never clear why this happened; speculations circulated that it was due to the cost of adding Pantone in Adobe software, while Pantone openly stated that it believed Adobe wasn’t keeping up with the plethora of new colours it created. Scott Belsky, Adobe’s chief product officer, tweeted that Pantone had asked Adobe to delete the colours because “they want to charge customers directly.”

Not using Pantone colour for a while now….