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Finding color suggestions with the Color Guide panel

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Finding color suggestions with the Color Guide panel

As a designer, you're faced with many different challenges. One of those, of course, is choosing the right color to use. To some people, it comes naturally. However, many designers struggle with figuring out what colors work well with each other. Well, Illustrator has a special panel, something called the Color Guide, which can help. I'm going to open up the Color Guide right here. In fact, I'm going to drag it out on to the page so we can take a closer look at it. The whole idea of the Color Guide is that Illustrator can suggest colors to you that work with other colors. For example, each time that I click on a swatch inside of my Swatches panel, the Color Guide will update offering suggestions with other colors that might work with the color that I'm selecting. There are many ways to figure out how colors work with other colors. For example, sometimes you want colors to look very close in shade to each other, while other times you might want to create completely contrasting colors…

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