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Title: Watch this thread: The color of ideas Date: 2007-01-30 03:21 Author: Femke Category: News, Tools Tags: Printing + Publishing, Watch this thread Slug: watch-this-thread-colors Status: published [![pantone.jpg](http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/pantone.thumbnail.jpg){#image178}](http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/pantone.jpg "pantone.jpg"){.imagelink} A widely used proprietary color-system such as Pantone, obviously raises questions for Open Source graphic tools. Gregory Pittman writes: > \* Obviously, no one, including Pantone, can copyright a color, and > especially in these days where the RGB/CMYK color systems are freely > usable -- ie, you can't put a claim on RGB color "ef9824". > \* They **can** copyright the names and the connection with their > inks. > \* They want to control the ability of anyone to connect some other > color system to Pantone names or inks. My guess is about all they can > really do is attempt to keep you from using their color/ink name, as > in "this matches Pantone Keepsake Lilac or Pantone 15-2705" (their > current color of the day). Understandably they don't want someone else > feeding off the system they have created. > \* *What it really begs for is someone to establish another system > (open of course) with its own names which might in some way link up to > Pantone and other inks, with the attached disclaimer that no promise > is made that this product exactly matches any proprietary color or > ink.* [Read full thread here](http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/2007-January/022187.html)