Adobe Now Charging Extra to Use Pantone Colors
Noor Al-Sibai,
The Byte,
Oct 31, 2022
How bad is it? Images - even very old images - are being changed to black because they used a now-prohibited colour. This arose from a dispute between Pantone and Adobe where the former decided the latter should start paying licensing fees for colours. The inevitable result? "Users will have to pay $21 per month to get access to Pantone's encyclopedic color catalog — and that moreover, this move appears to be retroactive, and would remove any Pantone-trademarked color from any Adobe file you open starting in November, regardless of the age of one's software or the file itself." Tell me again that it's about protecting the creators.
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