3M vinyl book says its Pantone Black C (which looks more like a smokey-black, imo), but we always go with the PMS formula for Dark Bronze and its spot on.
Are there any workarounds to the pantone adobe issue? Tried to assign a pantone color to an object but can confirm it no longer works in 2023. I knew this was coming. There is a misleading mention of loading the pantone connect extension to allow you to use Pantone colors in your design...
Does anyone know of a chart that comverts Sherwin Williams paint numbers to Pantone numbers. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Stuart
Pantone claims they were "forced" to launch their Connect service because Adobe didn't update their versions of Pantone's swatch books. The way I see it those digital Pantone swatch book files are form of advertising for Pantone to sell those physical swatch books. They're not the only company making spot color systems (Toyo, Trumatch).
Sure you can take a pantone swatch over to the spot color library and find one that matches and run that spot color instead, but the spot color library has been around forever - so I highly doubt "that's why it exists." It exists so that you can run a spot color and know it's going to print the same every single time.
Matching vinyl colors to RGB, CMYK or Pantone colors is a very common issue. Attached is a chart with approximate RGB, CMYK and HexID's for all of our graphic film colors.
"The Pantone Matching System is an international printing, publishing and packaging color language providing an accurate method for the selection, presentation, specification, communication, ...