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Illustrator color ui missing12/19/2023 My two cents, I think Pantone lept way before they looked and did not have a) the infrastructure or b) the software to handle the conversion once Adobe was forced to remove the books. If I do get in a position where a client is insisting on using some brand new Pantone color I'm going to tell the client that color will cost extra. I don't want to pay another $180 per year on top of that just to have a digital equivalent of it in Illustrator. A physical Color Formula Guide with coated and uncoated swatch books costs upwards of $200. Not everyone is going to get on this Pantone Premium train. Those who choose to pay $15 per month to get access to newer Pantone colors will have a file compatibility adventure if they need to send artwork to another vendor. They'll see trouble receiving artwork with any kind of Pantone spot color fills. Not everyone will have backed up copies of Pantone color books from a previous version of Illustrator, Photoshop or InDesign to re-use in current versions. Going forward it's going to be a compatibility issue. Previously it wasn't going to matter to us if a customer provided Illustrator file had Pantone-based fills applied to the artwork. This Pantone issue is creating a big, stupid mess. This situation will give many users all that much more incentive to use only RGB or CMYK colors in their artwork and bypass the whole Pantone thing entirely. The digital swatches are practically a form of advertising. The digital swatches help sell the physical color swatch books. The digital versions of Pantone color swatches are absolutely worthless to anyone who doesn't have a physical, real-world swatch book corresponding with the same colors. IMHO, this is one of the flat-out most stupid, idiotic things I've ever seen a graphics-related company do. My guess is some "bright" new bean-counter hired at Pantone came up with the brilliant idea to effectively double charge its customers.
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