Pantone Swatch turning black in Edit Colours

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August 11, 2024
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Hello, i'm changing some colours in some documents i'm about to send to print and changing the colours from ones i've just picked on the screen into specified pantones. I'm pasting swatches into each document to then select all on active artboard - edit colours - recolour artwork (under prominent colours the colours look broadly correct at this stage) - advanced options - colour picker for each colour and choose the pantone swatch to convert to.

Then when i go back to verify if the colours are correct i edit colours - recolour artwork and under prominent colours there are three colours that look the same as those i've chosen, plus an extra BLACK.

The black doesn't appear in the colour picker screen but i can't remove it from prominent colours.

I understand Pantone and Adobe have had a bit of a separation and that there are bugs associated. Does anyone know the fix please?

My documents are using white (ffffff) Pantone 2188c Pantone 7590c

Thank you very much for any help

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Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

When you want to replace a color swatch by another one, you do not need to use Recolor Artwork.

Just select first the new color in the Swatches panel, the hold down the Cmd (on Mac) or the Ctrl key (on Win) and select Merge Swatches from the Swatches panel menu.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

If I understand correctly the black appears only after Recolor Artwork is used.

Does it replace a Pantone color? Is the swatch still a spot color, with Color Mode: Book?

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heysharonaAuthor

Known Participant

Yes correct the black only appears after recolour artwork is used.

I thought the black replaced a pantone colour but now I can't be certain because I thought why not try respecifying the whites to see if it does anything and it did remove the black (which doesn't make any sense!)

So I did edit colours - and the prominent colours were three: peach, white and blue. I did recolour artwork, colour picker chose pantone swatches 7590c and 2188c and I had two whites (both hex ffffff) which I ignored. When I went back to verify my colours were correct under prominent colours I had four: white, peach, black and blue.

So then I did edit colours again - prominent colours were four white, peach, black and blue. I did recolour artwork, colour picker chose pantone swatches 7590c and 2188c and just rechose two whites on colour picker, they were both Hex ffffff and I rechose the exact same Hex ffffff under colour picker, and the black went away.

If it's helpful I have been making this same document for a product for 6 years exactly the same way and this year decided to change the two pantone spot colours. I have always had a peach, blue and white. Before this year when I discovered i no longer have the pantone colour libraries I have never had an issue with anything. The old blue and peach swatches i had used for years have always been in my documents.

thanks for taking the time with this!