![]() ![]() Obviously, as as you’ve distributed it, it’s a Adobe plugin. Hackaday So my next question relates to Freetone. So I had to tell them Pantone references, it’s the language they understand. I just did a record cover for Placebo, the band, that was produced for me by someone that prints, so I had to tell them what spot colours I wanted. The red I was talking about was the red they were talking about, and Pantone is super useful for that. So I was working with a lot of people, we’ve been collaborating, and I was working with some friends in New York on it, and we needed a common language. 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. Tiffany have not only restricted the way people can use the colour through Trademark but also have an exclusive deal with Pantone, who registered their colour too, in the process giving them sole access to Pantone 1837 and rendering it not available to the public until now.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. The Pantone® color is called “1837 Blue,” named after Tiffany’s founding year”.Īlthough nature made it first, Tiffany’s multi-class registration is for “a shade of blue often referred to as Robin’s Egg Blue”. ![]() No matter the medium the color is reproduced in, Tiffany’s proprietary hue remains consistent and instantly recognizable. “Since 1998, Tiffany Blue® has been registered as a color trademark by Tiffany and, in 2001, was standardized as a custom color created by Pantone® exclusively for Tiffany and not publicly available. Although many corporations have trademarked colours, like T-Mobile’s Magenta or Coca Cola’s Red, what makes Tiffany Blue different is that it's trademark stops it being used across nearly a quarter of all products and services including jewellery, fragrance, leather goods, tableware, books covers, stationary ,even the colour of a shop front or a taxi cab! Tiffany Blue was created by Charles Tiffany and John Young in 1837 and is a trademarked colour that needs a license to use it. Stuart Semple has liberated this very special Tiff Blue as a paint for all artists to use.
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