Formidable Indesign Pantone Swatch Libraries

By default the Adobe InDesign color palette displays combinations of CMYK colors four ink colors used in the commercial printing process.

Indesign pantone swatch libraries. The key to a color swatch library is that you can look in a preprinted book of color swatches find the color you want and then choose that same color in InDesign. 3 Select a color library from the Color Mode drop-down list. To decide on a swatch from a swatch library comply with these steps.

Go to Window CC Libraries to see the panel. In the Swatch Panel menu in Illustrator choose Save Swatch Library as ASE Save that to somewhere you can locate. Follow answered Jan 7 16 at 1940.

Choose the one you want in this case PANTONE solid coated and that set immediately loads. As a project moves through the production chain the use of Pantone colors eliminates variations in color. The drop-down list contains a list of color swatch libraries to choose from such as Pantone Process Coated or TRUMATCH.

Create a swatch based on the color of an object. One thing to watchout for with the current version is the PANTONE Bridge Libraries are supposed to be Pantones recommended CMYK simulations for the solid ink spots colors. In the Swatches panel do one of the following.

Click save or export depending on your version of PANTONE Color Manager. For this example we chose standard solid-coated Pantone. Now the Pantone color is added to library.

Couple of issues Ive found with the new PCM V3 colour swatches in InDesign On the plus side PCM V3 colours show small on-screen warnings for spot colours that are beyond the displays gamut. When you click a Bridge swatch more icon there is an option to add the Bridge color to your swatches but the color gets added as process Lab and not the listed CMYK value. Click the New Swatch button and double-click the resulting new swatch.