Do you want more reasons to dislike everything? Users will have to pay a small monthly fee to use the fancy colors on Adobe products.
First spotted by designer Iain Anderson, users will have to pay $21 per month to get access to Pantone's encyclopedic color catalog, and that this move appears to be retroactive, and would remove any Pantone-trademarked color from any Adobe file you open in November.
Fun times ahead for #Adobe designers. Today, if you open a PSD (even one that's 20 years old) with an obscure PANTONE colour, it will remove the colour and make it black. Pantone want US$21/month for access, and Solid Coated goes behind the paywall in early November. pic.twitter.com/BUxzViYFaQ
— Iain Anderson (@funwithstuff) October 28, 2022
You're not the only one who is confused. The move comes after a number of twists and turns, with Adobe announcing last year that it would be dropping Pantone colors.
Anderson spotted the change this week, after Adobe's promised "alternative solution" came and went repeatedly.
It also opens up a can of worms since attempts to trademark colors are both goofy and difficult.
"Owning colors is a terrible idea and technically, it's not possible to do so," Doctorow stated on his website. The companies want you to believe that they are actually owned by them.
The law is clear that colors aren't property, but companies like Pantone are going to keep trying to say that they are, until everyone decides to turn their backs on these sorts of industry standard-bearers.
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