Adobe has confirmed that Pantone Colour Libraries will be phased out from creative cloud, although some Colour Books will remain available.
The software giant said that thought the standardised pre-loaded Colour Libraries in Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign would be phased out however, three Pantone Colour Books would remain. These are: Pantone + CMYK coated, Pantone + CMYK uncoated, and Pantone + Metallics Coated.
The change means that customers will need to buy Pantone Connect licences to access all of the Pantone Libraries via a plug-in.
Adobe said the change had come about because “Pantone’s licensing with Adobe was adjusted”. Other colour systems: ANPA, DIC, Focoltone, HKS, Toyo and Trumatch will remain available in Adobe Creative Cloud apps.
Adobe also stated that InDesign files with swatches from Pantone Colour Books “will function as before when opened or placed in InDesign”, including past or future software releases.
It also said that InDesign files with place-linked Photoshop files that use spot channels would render Grey/Black in InDesign “when colours from Colour Books are no longer available”.
