About selecting colors

In Illustrator, you can select colors that are suitable for your artwork demands. If you want to use specific company-approved colors, you can select colors from the company-approved swatch library.

You can use any of the following features for selecting a color:

• Swatches panel and Swatch Libraries panels: Offers individual colors and swatch groups, allowing you to select from built-in libraries, create custom swatches, or import your own.
• Color Picker: Provides a visual color spectrum, value fields for precise color input, and swatches for quick selection.
• Eyedropper tool: Samples colors from your artwork when you select.
• Color panel: Provides a color spectrum, value sliders, and text boxes to define fill and stroke colors. You can also generate inverse or complementary colors and create swatches from selected colors.
• Color Guide panel: Offers harmony rules to generate swatch groups from a selected base color, with options to explore tints, shades, and warm or cool variations. You can open the swatch group in the Edit Colors or Recolor Artwork dialog for further adjustments.
• Edit Colors dialog box: Provides tools for precisely defining or adjusting the colors in a swatch group or artwork.
• Recolor Artwork dialog box: Lets you recolor your artwork using the colors from a swatch group or reduce or convert your colors for output.
• Add Selected Colors: Creates individual swatches using the option in the Swatches panel.
• New Swatch Group: Creates a swatch group from selected artwork colors using the option in the Swatches panel.