How to Design with PMS Colors After Pantone's Removal from Adobe

Since Adobe aparently had a falling out with Pantone, I know there are ways to still design with PMS colors but how?

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Hi @SirSpeedy Meadow Lands , You can download .acb files here:

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There was no falling out - Pantone wanted to charge people using Adobe products for using their Pantone product.

Pantone's decision.

You can still use PMS colours - you can get a subscription to Pantone and get them that way.

If you have documents with PMS colours already in use you can use them no problem.

And if you have old versions of software from Adobe that have Pantone libraries you can copy them to the New InDesign folders and access them.

Ultimately, if you want to use the latest Pantone colours you now have to pay directly with Pantone.

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