Colours Aren’t Free Anymore

What to do about Adobe’s impend­ing lack of Pan­tone support?

There were a lot of thoughts out there on this one. I down­loaded the Free­tone palette, and so far that works pret­ty well for me.

Make a spot col­or, call it the Pan­tone col­or you intend to print. This is what I have always done, print­ers don’t care, and IMHO the RGB screen val­ues in Adobe prod­ucts have nev­er tru­ly matched up to how the actu­al PMS col­or prints

— Jes­si­ca His­che (@jessicahische) Octo­ber 28, 2022

Tip: back­up your cur­rent (extreme­ly out­dat­ed) #PANTONE+ .acb and .aco files from the #Adobe InDesign/Illustrator/Photoshop/Bridge ‘Presets/Color Swatches/Color Books’ fold­ers and—probably—restore those files after each CC update.

— Emiel Efdée (@emielefdee) Sep­tem­ber 22, 2022