Color and Painting - Adobe Illustrator CC - page 241

You can designate colors as either spot or process color types, which
correspond to the two main ink types used in commercial printing.
• A process color is printed using a combination of the four standard process
inks: cyan (C), magenta (M), yellow (Y), and black (K) (CMYK).
• A spot color is a special premixed ink that is used instead of, or in addition to,
CMYK process inks. A spot color requires its own printing plate on a printing
press.

Creating a spot color

In this section, you will see how to load a color library, such as the PANTONE color system,
and how to add a PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM (PMS) color to the Swatches panel.
1. In the Swatches panel, click the Swatch Libraries Menu button (

) at the bottom of

the panel. Choose Color Books > PANTONE+ Solid Coated.
The PANTONE+ Solid Coated library appears in its own panel.
2. Type 755 in the Find field. As you type, the list is filtered, showing a smaller and
smaller range of swatches. Type another 5 so that 7555 appears in the search field.
Click the swatch beneath the search field to add it to the Swatches panel. Click the X to
the right of the search field to stop filtering them. Close the PANTONE+ Solid Coated
panel.

Note
When you exit Illustrator and then relaunch it, the PANTONE library panel
does not reopen. To automatically open the panel whenever Illustrator opens,
choose Persistent from the PANTONE+ Solid Coated panel menu.

3. Choose 2 Artboard 2 from the Artboard Navigation menu in the lower-left corner of
the Document window.
4. With the Selection tool ( ), click the first white-filled tree shape on the left. From the
Fill color in the Control panel, choose the PANTONE 7555 C color to fill the shape.