But some people, like artist Stuart Semple - they don’t love the control Pantone has over colors. Pantone is expensive. Their books can cost thousands of dollars. And back in 2022, the day Photoshop designs turned black, Adobe’s digital license with Pantone had changed. Pantone was now going directly to users and saying, if you want your colors back, you have to pay $15 a month. Stuart was fed up.

I’m adding this rare bit of commentary to celebrate another marketing bullshit “colour of the year” campaign by posting this link to free-tone - the free pantoneish plug-in for everyone who doesn’t want to pay a corporate colour monopoly.

Get fucked, Pantone.

Get fucked, twice. Pantone C colour converter to Hex and RGB

  • otacon239@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    I work in the design industry and Pantone is such a pain to deal with. You can’t just get an export table of hex colors with the numbers. It’s technically only available via direct plugin in Adobe suite and even then, you have to pick them from a list, and then sample the color, but not simply get a list in data form.

    I found it through some rough searching, but holy hell. They want you to have an enterprise license to just reference hex values. Eat my ass, Pantone.

    • Wren@lemmy.todayOPMEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Yep. Yep. I worked in printing and freelance design for print. They come out with new swatch books every year that legit cost thousands for the priviledge of using colour.

      I wouldn’t hand them a mint if they just choked on godzilla cock.