Pantone colours and CC libraries

Also, you might find this post on branding guides useful—there is a link to an InDesign Pantone guide, which is searchable and contains the newer solid ink library:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/branding-color-guide/td-p/10818696?page=1

The free Pantone Connect extension works for creating single swatches, but you have to watch the color mode when you create the swatch. Pantone also has Pantone Color Manager which lets you export entire libraries as .acb files, but it’s not free. I haven’t checked lately, but there was a 30 day trial, that let you export.

When you search Connect make sure you select the correct guide. Here I searched for 3564, and selected the Formula Coated guide, which are the Lab defined spot colors. Hover over the swatch, and click with the eyedropper to transfer the color to your ID Color Picker:

Open your Color Picker and make sure your cursor is in one of the L, a, or b fields, and click Add Lab Swatch

Rename the swatch and set its Type to Spot and add it to your Library

The Library item is defined as Lab, and comes back into InDesign as a Lab defined spot color swatch:

If it's a spot colour for printing a Pantone colour, don't worry if you can't reproduce the colour on your monitor as the ink will be mixed especially for printing. But be careful for specifying spot colours for things like logos, as the particular colour may not be able to be reproduced in CMYK which, would be used in things like magazine advertisments.