I’m glad the author at least got one dig at Pantone at the end. 
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I think someone at Pantone has a sweet tooth. Fuzzy Peach, now Mocha Mousse, lol. I personally believe the whole break off from Adobe will spell disaster for them in the end. Especially if Adobe comes forward with their own and puts it in for free in their software, it will make for an easy alternative and we’d move away from Pantone.
I have noticed an uptick in the use of brown over the past year — not necessarily that exact Pantone color, but similar. For example, furniture and interior decoration seem to have embraced it.
Pantone has nothing to worry about from Adobe. Wellll, maybe not nothing, but I do not see an entire print industry embracing a ‘color system’ from Adobe. Pantone is ingrained all the way through the output machinery. There would be all kind of licensing and profiling issues. I don’t see it. At least not before I retire. 
As for brown + Pantone, mocha mousse isn’t the first thing I think of…
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True, it might take some time, but I believe most people aren’t willing to pay for the ridiculous Pantone system. I know where I’m working, we are gradually pushing away from Pantone / PMS color matching and just sticking with Process CMYK. But in this digital age, I think it is a lot easier to make the move, compared to back 20 - 30 years ago.
It’s $100per year. It’s a totally justifiable business expense at under $9 per month.
That’s two Starbucks Coffees.
The only reason I hate the arrangement is it is a crappy plugin. It continually logs me out, which plugins should never do and it’s several extra steps to get the colors I want into the swatch palette when I need them.
Process CMYK has it’s limitations way beyond $9 per month. But alot of people seem to be happy with the results. {shrug} You send it, I’ll print it. But I’d get the proof first, were I you.
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Also, Pantone isn’t used only by graphic designers and printers. The company wants to be the all-purpose standard for color management, so its color system has branched out into plastics, textiles, coatings, and probably other things.
As for expenses, buying a set of their plastic chips is around $9,000.
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LOL, not to mention if you want a run of something plastic made with a specific Pantone number, you don’t just get one piece. You get a lift. Or two. At least several hundred pounds.
What I don’t get is why I’m often getting Fabric numbers for press print stuff. The Solid color swatch decks aren’t all that spendy. The tear out chip books can get up there. But I’m not going out and buying the Fabric deck. I’d rather match a Ben Moore Paint color first if that’s what we gotta do.
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I do understand both your points of view. Maybe I’ll be proven wrong and that’s fine. I don’t make the financial decisions here, so I can only do what I’m told. I think that $9.00 is USD, it’s a bit more CAD, but still, although I agree that does sound reasonable, for my boss, it’s an added expense I guess he doesn’t want, especially after paying over $900 / yr for Adobe. I think for him and I’m sure many others, it’s more of a thing, that it’s always been a part of the Adobe Suite (At least for as long as I’ve been in the industry) and now that it isn’t there, they feel it’s a change and with everything else going to the subscription base, maybe it’s just too much. Only time will tell.
Pantone swatches are still a standard part of the Affinity Suite. Unlike with Adobe, there’s apparently still an agreement between the two companies.
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For how long?
You can find the old Pantone libraries on GitHub and places like that. There was no problem in saving backing up or sharing them.
And if you have an older version of Adobe you can copy the swatches file to the new InDesign folder.
Pantone colors still work from older files or supplied files.
No reason you can’t make an .acb file yourself of collected Pantone colors etc.
Reckon Pantone pulled out of Adobe so they could capitalize on subscriptions from the design industry.
Affinity is getting ground but I don’t see it as a game changer or a big player in the market at the moment.
Going by half of what I see on here and other forums the hobbyists don’t understand Pantone, CMYK, Rgb etc anyway.
So really only professionals will likely use it, correctly.
Anyway, Brown, nice shade.
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It’s a brilliant marketing strategy they have with color of the year. They throw a dart to pick a random color, then send out a one page press release, and they score a million bucks in free advertising.
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We are going to run to a Mexican restaurant a block down from Crate and Barrell tonight. Maybe we’ll duck in C&B and play “spot the Mocha Mousse stuff."
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LOL I’m sure you will find some 
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