![]() It was really important to me that the colour of the paint matched the colour of actual blood. So you know, if I’m working with a screen printer, I want to know that the print that they make of my work is the colour that I want it to be, so Pantone’s really useful for me for that.īut also, even with within the paints, so I just did a thing where I made some paints, which actually uses the blood of gay men. ![]() So I make a lot of screen prints as part of my art. But why why do you as an artist use Pantone? Art, activism, and a very red pigment. ![]() Hackaday I understand Pantone is something used by designers, so I’ve worked for companies in the past where the designer would specify a Pantone index and it would appear on the screen, on the printed box, and on everything else identically. I had a phone conversation with him, in which he explained why Freetone had come into being. In fact it’s been argued that they are indistinguishable from those behind the Adobe paywall”. Most recently in response to the Adobe/Pantone controversy he’s released Freetone, a free plugin for the Adobe suite that in the words from its web page contains “1280 Liberated colours are extremely Pantoneish and reminiscent of those found in the most iconic colour book of all time. He’s drawn attention to the issue by releasing his own art materials in colours that directly challenge those which companies have tried to claim for themselves, and is perhaps best known in our community for challenging Anish Kapoor’s exclusive licence for VantaBlack, the so-called “world’s blackest pigment”. Stuart Semple is probably one of the more famous contemporary British artists, but in relation to this story it’s his activism over the issue of colours and intellectual property that makes him an authority. To rectify this omission we needed to step outside our field and talk to an artist, and in that context there’s an obvious person to interview. It’s fair to say though that in our focus on hardware hackers and open source enthusiasts, we missed its effect on artists and designers. Interview With An Artist And Pigment Activist The palette that could start a revolution. Our coverage focused on our community, and on how the absurdity of a commercial entity attempting to assert ownership over colours would have no effect on us with our triple-byte RGB values. We recently covered the removal of Pantone colour support from the Adobe cloud products, with the two companies now expecting artists and designers to pay an extra subscription for a Pantone plugin or face losing their Pantone-coloured work to a sea of black blocks.
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