


Print houses could purchase ink recipes for each color which were guaranteed to match the swatch books. Pantone colors are a standardized set of colors originally used to ensure that the colors of final printed products match the colors designers selected from swatch books. Worse, if you have existing PSD files which use the color set, you may find that they have been replaced with black if you don’t buy the subscription … About Pantone colors If you want to use the industry-standard colors in future, you’ll need to pay a $15/month subscription. Pantone colors have long been free to use in Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator – but that’s now changed.
