pantone colors in Illustrator 2024

[gerhard5CC2]

Hi I need step by step help for an Idiot (me) how to get Pantone colors back into Illustrator 2024

[Bobby Henderson]

If you have back-up copies of the Pantone+ ACB files you simply copy them to the clipboard and then paste them into the proper Illustrator program files folder.

On the Windows platform the location is:
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator 2024\Presets\en_US\Swatches\Color Books

[Ton Frederiks · Accepted solution]

You can have multiple versions of Illustrator installed.

There is still one version that you can download that has the libraries.

Install an older version of Illustrator: 2023 (27.0), this is the last version that has the old Pantone Color books.

In the Creative Cloud app select Apps > All Apps > Illustrator > click the 3 dots …  next to the Open button >  click Other Versions and select 27.0

Go the Illustrator 2023 Application folder > Presets > (your language folder) > Swatches > Color Books > and make a copy of PANTONE+ Solid Coated.acb and PANTONE+ Solid Uncoated.acb

Keep them in a safe place and copy them to the same location in the Illustrator 2024 application folder.