- When creating a new swatch, the window's name is New Colour Swatch
- When editing an existing swatch the name of the window is Swatch Options
Open up one of those windows as described above and follow along:
- By default InDesign calls a new swatch by its colour values. However you can un-check the Name with Colour Value box and name your swatch something else. If you are editing an existing swatch, InDesign will show you the swatch's name, which you can then change once you are in the Swatch Options window.
- You can see a drop down menu called Colour Type which will allow you to choose between process and spot colours.
- You then have your Colour Mode menu. Here you not only can choose between RGB and CMYK, but you can also specify Pantone colours and other types of colours. You will mostly use CMYK, RGB, any of the Pantone types and, if you do web design, the Web colours. Web colours are 256 colours that come from the RGB palette and which are used in web pages.
- You also have the sliders which we saw in the Colour palette and the percentages of the colours used to make your swatch next to them. You also have the possibility of having a preview of the colour you are now specifying.
