Pantone opens up Pantone Connect for free

"As the world is grappling with a new normal amid COVID-19, the design community in particular is also finding new ways to adjust to new working conditions and change in demand due to slowdown in business," Pantone said in a statement.

Thinking that its recently launched product, Pantone Connect, may be a helpful tool to extend to the design community to use during this challenging time, Pantone has opened up the product for free.

While existing users have been given an additional three months credited to their account, all creatives and designers may take advantage of this unlimited free access to July 1, 2020, the release said.

Pantone Connect helps graphic and fashion designers build palettes and easily convert and match Pantone colours digitally through Adobe Creative Cloud. "This tool will help fill the missing 5,600 colours in Adobe Creative Cloud making it possible to get missing colours in design files. This is particularly helpful for teams, who while working from home will need to align on colour palettes and can do so using this app’s collaboration features," the company said.

Pantone Connect easily converts eye dropper, Hex, RGB, CMYK, and L*a*b* values to the nearest Pantone Color. It also creates and stores colour palettes, and helps collaborate on palettes with teammates. Search, filter, and cross reference between Pantone colour systems, as well as colour harmonies, extraction from images, and much more can be done using Pantone Connect.

Fibre2Fashion News Desk (RKS)