Pantone+ Solid Coated and Uncoated not available once software is dowloaded

[LawGuy]

So I just download the trial version of Affinity Designer and cannot find PANTONE+ Soild Coated and PANTONE+ Soild Uncoated in the swatches tab.  I'm just wondering what the cause may be?  I need those specific swatches for printing purposes.  Also I'm pretty sure that it's not the same as PANTONE Formula Guide.  But if it is, I'd like to know.

Edited April 27, 2022 by LawGuy

[EmT]

Hi @LawGuy

Welcome to the Forum. 

The Pantone Plus Series does includes Pantone Formula Guide (Solid Coated and Uncoated). So it does sound like that may be what you are looking for. Is there a specific Pantone colour you need? 

The links below may help provide some more detail on the different colour guides. 

https://www.designface.co.uk/pantone-plus-series/

https://www.lifewire.com/before-you-buy-pantone-color-guides-1073948

https://www.pantone.com/uk/en/colour-systems/for-graphic-design

https://www.verivide.com/which-pantone-book-is-the-right-one-for-you/

[LawGuy]

So, the Specific Pantone swatch i’m looking for is 'PANTONE+ Solid Coated' and 'Pantone+ Solid Uncoated' which is in the 'Pantone Solid Chips' palette. Does Affinity Designer (and all other Affinity products)  still offer those specific swatches? I don’t have see it whenever I open up Affinity.

[EmT]

If you can create or find that palette as an adobe swatch exchange file then you would be able to import it into Affinity, it would however be identified as colour values not Pantone values. 

[LawGuy]

So would that Adobe swatch exchange file be something similar to the other swatch excel files found in Affinity? 

[EmT]

The Pantone collections within the app are the ones that are supplied to us by Pantone. The Adobe swatch exchange would be a method of allowing the import a third party palette into our apps. The names of the colours would depend on how the palette was designed, its not something we have control over.