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stampylives t1_j1vr9cv wrote

The idea of pantone is there is indeed a representation of that color in various color spaces, there is definitely a RGB value used to represent that pantone color. The idea of a pantone license is that people need to pay to say something is a pantone color.

I do not know this for a fact, it is only speculation -- but if the license ran out, Photoshop would probably be violating some intellectual property law by converting that pantone color to it's representation in RGB on a screen.

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HieronymousDouche t1_j1wh5ic wrote

That is correct and everybody else is missing the point. Almost every Pantone color could easily be represented accurately with RGB.

There used to be a free plugin provided for photoshop that let you specify Pantone colors as the colors in the image instead of RGB. If you made an image with that plugin, it no longer has colors unless you pay up for the super real official licensed newer plugin.

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ARNB19 t1_j1vs1xz wrote

My understanding is that Adobe intends to start charging users to use Pantone color spaces.

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