Has anyone else out there found themselves wondering why Adobe products don't have the very latest Pantone swatches installed as standard? I have a situation today where a customer has found a specific Pantone colour they want to use in a project - but it's a Pantone Plus colour, PMS 2374. If you try to add this swatch in InDesign it won't be there.

It seems that the only way I can use this PMS colour is to buy a bit of software from Pantone called 'Pantone Color Manager' that costs £90.

I just find myself thinking that I already pay for my Adobe software so it seems a bit much to have to pay more. Does anyone else feel the same way?

I know Adobe and Pantone are different companies , but surely some kind of deal could be struck. After all, Pantone colours are pretty integral to most design processes and as designers we can't avoid using them.

Every inDesign (my version Adobe inDesign CC 2020 15.0.2)

To open the color picker, go to the toolbar on the left of the screen and double-click on the colored square.

It would be nice if the color picker is the same in inDesign as the one in Illustrator and Photoshop. The color picker opens in RGB while we are on a document in CMYK.
We are graphic designers and we use this software because it is designed for printing professionals. The printer works in CMYK so why have a color picker with an RGB color space?

Or have the possibility in the preferences to have the color picker with a color space either in CMYK or in RGB

In PS and AI, there're a lot of built-in color/gradient libraries, and when you want to select a color, you ca just append them or open a color library, but in indesign, there're no ways you can do so, a lot of the color selecting work is done by guessing unless you know which color you want to choose

I hope there will be a built-in color library (if the interactive buttons can have a built-in library and why don't we add a sample color library?

I know the "Official" way to do this is using Adove Color Theme Panel, but lets face it, this panel is takes so long to load the UI, and everytime you switch between different pane, it takes a long time to load the UI as well. not a good idea when you just want to choose color on the fly

The Color Group function is really useful, but it only works in the creation phase if you select multiple colours. There's no obvious way to add a colour to a group after it's been created - there's no contextual menu option, there's no palette menu option, and seemingly, you can't drag and drop it into the folder, which is counterintuitive as this is something users do all the time with Layers. Similarly, color groups should function the same way inside the CC Libraries palette. There should be a shortcut to add any selected Swatch or Color Group to the current Library, with a warning if duplicates already exist (based on color value, not name); with option to keep separate swatches or replace with new one.

I have a workbook/training document that has sections, and each section uses a different color scheme. I used the Color Theme tool to create the different color themes for the various sections. But with each new theme, I lost the preceding floating palette. It would be so helpful to be able to reopen a color theme floating palette that is based on a theme you saved in the Swatches panel. It would be more convenient to drag the floating palette around the screen (near to the objects where you want to apply fill or stroke) than to have to undock, drag, expand, and collapse the color palette itself, especially if you have a workspace all arranged that you don't want to disrupt. Plus, the floating palette has larger color thumbnails than does the swatch palette, so swatches are easier to see on monitors where the resolution is set high.