You now have to pay to use Pantone colors in Adobe products

By Sohail Akhter Image: Google

To use Pantone colors on any Adobe product, you now have to pay $15 per month.

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Last week Adobe has removed the free support Pantone Color.

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The Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator Creative Cloud applications all remove Pantone Color Free support.

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PSD Files That Contained Pantone Color Now There Is Black Color Pay For A Plugin Subscription To Use It

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In August 2022, some colors were removed from the Pantone color list.

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To use Pantone Color, the user has to purchase a license key, then you can access Adobe's plugin.

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Pantone stated that the color library within Adobe has not been properly maintained for many years.

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