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Color

Last updated 6/6/2015

Working with swatches

Swatches panel overview

The Swatches panel (Window > Color > Swatches) lets you create and name colors, gradients, or tints, and quickly apply

them to your document. Swatches are similar to paragraph and character styles; any change you make to a swatch

affects all objects to which the swatch is applied. Swatches make it easier to modify color schemes without having to

locate and adjust each individual object.

When the fill or stroke of selected text or an object contains a color or gradient applied from the Swatches panel, the

applied swatch is highlighted in the Swatches panel. Swatches you create are associated only with the current document.

Each document can have a different set of swatches stored in its Swatches panel.

When working with a prepress service provider, swatches let you clearly identify spot colors. You can also specify color

settings in a preflight profile to determine which color settings work with your printer.

Six CMYK-defined colors appear in the default Swatches panel: cyan, magenta, yellow, red, green, and blue.

Note: When you print a book whose chapters contain conflicting swatches, you can instruct InDesign to synchronize

settings with the master document. (See

Synchronize book documents.)

Swatch types

The Swatches panel stores the following types of swatches:

Colors Icons on the Swatches panel identify the spot and process color types, and LAB , RGB , CMYK

, and Mixed Ink color modes.

Tints A percentage value next to a swatch in the Swatches panel indicates a tint of a spot or process color.

Gradients An icon on the Swatches panel indicates whether a gradient is radial or linear .

None The None swatch removes the stroke or fill from an object. You can’t edit or remove this swatch.

Paper Paper is a built-in swatch that simulates the paper color on which you’re printing. Objects behind a paper-

colored object won’t print where the paper-colored object overlaps them. Instead, the color of the paper on which you

print shows through. You can edit the Paper color to match your paper stock by double-clicking it in the Swatches panel.

Use the Paper color for previewing only—it will not be printed on a composite printer or in color separations. You can’t

remove this swatch. Do not apply the Paper swatch to remove color from an object. Use the None swatch instead.

Note: If the Paper color is not working as described, and you are printing to a non-PostScript printer, try switching your

printer driver to Raster Graphics mode.

Black Black is a built-in, 100% process color black defined using the CMYK color model. You can’t edit or remove this

swatch. By default, all occurrences of Black overprint (print on top of ) underlying inks, including text characters at any

size. You can disable this behavior.

Registration Registration is a built-in swatch that causes objects to print on every separation from a PostScript

printer. For example, registration marks use the Registration color, so that printing plates can be aligned precisely on a

press. You cannot edit or remove this swatch.

You can also add colors from any color library to the Swatches panel so that they are saved with your document.

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