I read recently that Photoshop had Pantone colors, but recently Adobe’s Pantone license expired, so images created using Pantone colors simply lost that part of the image.
I’m not an expert on color, but isn’t almost anything represented by RGB? Why aren’t those colors just … colors? With specific number values that are encoded? Can these colors not be understood through regular web hex codes?
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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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