Adobe Illustrator CC 2015 - Manual (Page 157)

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Color
Last updated 6/5/2015
A Spot color B Global color C Fill or stroke of None D Registration swatch (prints on all plates) E CMYK symbol (when document is open in
CMYK mode)
F RGB symbol (when document is open in RGB mode) G Swatch Library Menu button H Show Swatch Kinds Menu button
I Swatch Options button J New ColorGroup button K New Swatch button
Change the display of swatches
❖ Select a view option from the Swatches panel menu: Small Thumbnail View, Medium Thumbnail View, Large
Thumbnail View, Small List View, or Large List View.
Show a specific type of swatch and hide all others
❖ Click the Show Swatch Kinds button and choose one of the following: Show All Swatches, Show Color Swatches,
Show Gradient Swatches, Show Pattern Swatches, or Show Color Groups.
Select all swatches that aren’t used in artwork
If you want to limit your Swatches panel to only the colors that are used in a document, you can select all unused
swatches and then delete them.
❖ Choose Select All Unused in the Swatches panel menu.
Select a color group
• To select the entire group, click the color group icon .
• To select swatches inside the group, click individual swatches.
Note: To edit the selected color group, make sure no artwork is selected and click the Edit Color Group button , or
double-click the color group folder. To edit the selected color group and apply the edits to selected artwork, click the Edit Or
Apply Colors button
, or double-click the color group folder. For more information, see Edit colors in the Edit Colors
dialog box .
Select a swatch by name
❖ Select Show Find Field from the Swatches panel menu. Type the first letter or letters of the swatch’s name in the Find
text box at the top of the panel.
Note: This procedure does not work with double-byte characters.
You can also use this method to select a PANTONE® swatch by entering the PANTONE number.
Move swatches into a color group
1 Drag individual color swatches to an existing color group folder.
2 Select the colors you want in a new color group and click the New Color Group button .