Pantone became a de facto standard 'cause it worked the best. KESLER: And it has maintained that standard for so long because it is the standard. Sam Yellowhorse Kesler, NPR News.

An curved arrow pointing right. Pantone has been the industry-standard color language for 60 years. Its tools ensure that color looks the same, no matter where in the world it's printed. If you ...

In 2007, the Herbert family, after five decades of ownership, sold Pantone for $180 million to X-Rite, a company that makes spectrophotometers and specializes in the hard science of color, which ...

If you wanted to explain the precise colors to anyone, anywhere around the world all you have to do is dial up Pantone 14-0957 (Spectera Yellow), Pantone 16-6339 (Vibrant Green), and Pantone 17-1664 .

Pantone colors have long been free to use in Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator – but that’s now changed.If you want to use the industry-standard colors in future, you’ll need to pay a $15 ...

In 2022, artist Stuart Semple opened up his laptop to find that all his designs had turned black overnight. All the colors, across files on Adobe products like Photoshop and Illustrator, were gone.

The design world rushed online this morning to find out what the Pantone Color of the Year for 2016 would be. But there was a surprise: For the first time in the 16-year history of this tradition ...

PSD files that contained Pantone spot colors now display unwanted black in their place, forcing creatives who need access to the industry-standard color books to pay for a plugin subscription ...

On Thursday, Pantone announced its 2025 color of the year: Mocha Mousse. Far softer than the “Brat” green that dominated 2024, the shade is a nougaty brown that reminded Styles staff members ...