How Do You Use Color Swatches In Indesign?
Graphic designers know using a consistent color palette is good marketing. InDesign software makes using the same colors throughout your document easy when they can be placed on a swatches palette, a sort of holding tank for your favorite hues. Open the swatches palette from the Window drop-down menu. View the list of colors already saved in your swatches palette. Depending on what version of InDesign you are working in, some color libraries may already be installed. InDesign CS3, for example, comes with Pantone colors. Edit the swatch by double clicking on the color. In the Swatch Options window, you can change colors to process or spot, or CMYK, RGB, lab and a host of other color values. You can then choose your own unique name for the swatch, such as “true blue,” by unchecking the box “Name with Color Value.” Choose whether your swatch color will affect the object or text (boxes at top of palette; one with a “T” and the other with a small box inside a box). Add a swatch by choosing
