From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Advanced

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Constraining colors to a swatch library

Constraining colors to a swatch library - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Advanced

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Constraining colors to a swatch library

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- [Voiceover] In this movie I'll show you how to constrain the colors in a custom color group to those inside of a given swatch library. And the reason you might need to do this is you have client or an art director that wants you to stay inside a certain group of corporate colors or they might be this year's latest fashion colors, you never know. But before we go any farther, let me define the difference between a color group and a swatch library. By returning to the Swatches panel and then clicking on the Library icon in the bottom right corner of the panel, and I'm going to choose Earthtone. And I want you to notice here, and I'll go ahead and make this panel a little bigger and I'll switch to the medium thumbnail view. Just so that we can see our swatches a little better. And notice that the first color group is called: Earthtone One, then we've got Earthtone Two, all the way down to Earthtone 10. And I'm not clicking on any of them because I don't want to add them to my Swatches…

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