Interview: Stuart Semple on Pantone, Freetone, color and open source
We recently covered the removal of Pantone color support from Adobe's cloud products, with both companies now expecting artists and designers to pay an additional subscription fee for a Pantone plug-in or risk losing their work in Pantone colors in a sea of black blocks. Our coverage focused on our community and how the absurdity of a commercial entity attempting to assert color ownership would have no effect on us with our three-byte RGB values.
Interview with a pigment artist and activist
More recently, in response to the Adobe/Pantone controversy, it launched Freetone, a free plug-in for the Adobe suite which, in the words of its webpage, contains "1280 liberated colors are extremely pantone and are reminiscent of those found in the most iconic color book of all time. In fact, they are claimed to be indistinguishable from those lurking behind Adobe's paywall."J had a phone conversation with him, during which he explained to me why Freetone had come into being.
Hackaday I understand that Pantone is something used by designers, so I've worked for companies in the past where the designer would specify a Pantone index and it would appear on screen, on the printed box, and all over the remains the same. But why, as an artist, do you use Pantone?
We recently covered the removal of Pantone color support from Adobe's cloud products, with both companies now expecting artists and designers to pay an additional subscription fee for a Pantone plug-in or risk losing their work in Pantone colors in a sea of black blocks. Our coverage focused on our community and how the absurdity of a commercial entity attempting to assert color ownership would have no effect on us with our three-byte RGB values.
Interview with a pigment artist and activist
More recently, in response to the Adobe/Pantone controversy, it launched Freetone, a free plug-in for the Adobe suite which, in the words of its webpage, contains "1280 liberated colors are extremely pantone and are reminiscent of those found in the most iconic color book of all time. In fact, they are claimed to be indistinguishable from those lurking behind Adobe's paywall."J had a phone conversation with him, during which he explained to me why Freetone had come into being.
Hackaday I understand that Pantone is something used by designers, so I've worked for companies in the past where the designer would specify a Pantone index and it would appear on screen, on the printed box, and all over the remains the same. But why, as an artist, do you use Pantone?
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