Our old designs could go black if we don’t pay Adobe and Pantone, which owns the rights to the colors involved.
It is not a known fact that individual color shades may have copyright holders and a fee must be paid for the use of such protected colors. The king of the genre is the American Pantone, the inventor of the Pantone Color Identification System, which has 2,161 colors.
Until now, most of these were found in Adobe products, such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, but the two companies changed the collaboration and made use of it for a fee.
The change, long in the balance and postponed several times, has taken shape in a new extension, which guarantees access to the colors of the Pantone scale, if we are willing to pay the monthly fee of $ 15, or HUF 6,200 at the exchange rate. today.
Fun times ahead #Adobe designer. Today, if you open a PSD (even one that is 20 years old) with a dark PANTONE color, it will remove the color and make it black. Pantone takes US / month to access and Solid Coated goes behind the paywall in early November. pic.twitter.com/BUxzViYFaQ
– Iain Anderson (@funwithstuff) October 28, 2022
However, this isn’t the only bad news. Although Adobe and Pantone have promised in advance that already saved projects will not be affected by the change, the my box according to his report several users complain that shades belonging to the Pantone scale have turned black in their existing works, which cannot be reversed even with the subscription.
At the time of writing, Adobe and Pantone have not responded to the case, but it is certain that they have not become more popular in the creative community.
