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Creating and applying swatches

Creating and applying swatches - Illustrator Tutorial

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Creating and applying swatches

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- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to save a color as a swatch inside Illustrator and swatches are essentially squares of saved colors that you can access anytime you like from the swatches panel. And the swatches panel is found in many locations in Illustrator, as we'll see. Now, if you open this document and you get that missing fonts warning, and you subscribe to the Creative Cloud and you're connected to the internet, then make sure the Activate checkbox is turned on for each missing font and then click on the Activate Fonts button. Now, the great thing about swatches is they help you establish a color theme inside a document. They also help you to stick with that color theme as we'll see, while building this calendar. And finally they automate the application of colors to both strokes and fills. And so the practical upshot is that if you think you're going to use a color more than once inside a…

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