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

Last week, Adobe removed support for free Pantone colors across its Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator Creative Cloud applications. PSD files that contained Pantone spot colors now display unwanted black in their place, forcing creatives who need access to the industry-standard color books to pay for a plugin subscription (via

“As we had shared in June, Pantone decided to change its business model. Some of the Pantone Color Books…