Pantone Solid Swatches Missing from 2023 update

I've run into this problem as well and found this thread in my search to solve it. This is a real problem for designers. Pantone are shooting themselves in the foot to not support designers in accessing their colour books easily in Adobe design software. KEEP IT THE SAME AS BEFORE. 

Thank you for ALL the responses here.... for the helpful ones and for the funny ones. I have been agonizing over how to fix this and you guys just made my day brighter and easier. Boo, Pantone. Hooray Nice People. 

Hello,

Actually i need some help with pantone book actually i have physical copy of pantone which shades are not available in this illustrator version can you please help how to solve this.

Thanks

Way over my paygrade! Illustrator updated itself on my Surface so I don't think I can go back to previous version to grab the the Pantone Books. Pantone and Adobe have been sticking it to production folks. Try mixiong ink colors using the newest Formula Guides. Plus the fact that years ago they changed the order of colors so it was easier for designers to select colors. What a mess. It would be awsome if someone could pull the two color books and make them available to us "older" folks.

Could anyone share the pantone solid coated swatches? I couldn't save it from the presets files, mine disappeard after I updated the software along with the old files getting removed...

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/1/23434305/adobe-pantone-subscription-announcement-photoshop-illustrator

Here's an article from the Verge about the new subscription for Pantone Colors. Not sure if it only applies to US or if it is internatnional. Some companies I work with are in Canada, anyone know about how this affects Canadian users?

This situation with Pantone is just unspeakably stupid. I mean really really stupid. We've seen other things removed from Creative Cloud in the past. Dolby encoding was pulled from Audition and Premiere Pro. Font Bureau and I think a couple other firms pulled fonts from the Adobe Fonts service. Support for Postscript Type 1 fonts is ending. But this thing with Pantone angers me more than any of these other downgrades.

It's bad enough those of us who need to use Pantone spot colors as references for color matching have to spend a ridiculous amount of money on the physical swatch books. Those things are expensive! A Pantone Formula Guide containing 2 swatch books (coated and uncoated spot colors) costs close to $200. And you're supposed to replace them on an annual basis since the printed colors on all those paper strips can fade over time and get damaged with use (and Pantone adds new colors from time to time). I guess that's not enough money for X-Rite or whoever owns Pantone now. They want an extra $15 per month for digital copies of these colors on top of the high cost for the physical color books. $15 per month is $180 per year. That puts the cost of fooling around using Pantone as a reference at upwards of $400 per year.

I've always looked at the digital versions of Pantone swatch books as a loss leader -as a way to sell the physical books and other real world materials. Or the digital swatches could be called a form of advertising for the physical books. If new colors get added to the digital swatches it might do more to convince users to buy new physical swatch books that match. If Pantone wants to erect a pay-wall for their digital swatch books they may just see the reverse happen. We could see a lot of people saying "NO" to paying nearly $400 per year and just shift to using different color standards to define branding. In many company branding guide books I've already been seeing them list RGB, CMYK or Hex values for their colors along with Pantone. I could see companies shift to using L*a*b values. I just don't expect to see Pantone coming away making more money and gaining more users. If anything they're going to lose a lot of customers instead.

Pantone claims Adobe hasn't updated the digital representations of Pantone's swatch books since 2010, which I think is a bogus charge. For instance I remember the Subway restaurant chain updated its brand in 2016, using new "Pantone Plus" spot colors. It took a few months but those spot colors showed up in subsequent releases of Illustrator (and other graphics applications). I don't know how many Pantone spot colors are missing from the Illustrator 2022 swatches compared to a current Pantone Formula Guide book, but it can't be a lot.

Digital versions of Pantone's color books are still present in rival graphics applications, such as CorelDRAW. Large format printing RIP applications interpolate those spot color books as well. Is Pantone going to install a pay-wall on all of those applications?

I think this opens the door for Pantone's rivals to make some gains in the market. Pantone isn't the only company selling and promoting spot/process color libraries. Adobe could even get into the business.

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/pantone-color-books-illustrator.html

Pantone stopped allowing Adobe to supply the libraries.

if you still have the previous illustrator installed you can pull it from there. Or if you have the books in inDesign, you can also pull it from there.

Or install a revious version of illustrator.

swatches are located here (on a Mac):

/Applications/Adobe Illustrator 2023/Presets/en_US/Swatches/

Don't forget to save those libraries somewhere, so you can easily pull them the next time your software updates.

Install the older version and grab the Pantone solid books from it.