Wednesday 7 October 2009

Spot Colour, Illustrator

Since having the presentations at the beginning of the year, i found an interest in Spot Colour.
My explanation of a Spot Colour, also known as a Special Colour, is a non-premixed ink which unlike CMYK isn't made of tiny dots of different colours, it is instead made with just one. 
Choosing a special/spot colour you need to have a pantone booklet.
This pantone booklet allows you to see a wide range of colours each one having a name. These names often being 'Pantone' then a number and then a letter!
  






These examples are images made with Illustrator, Firstly creating the image, then to open the selection of pantone, open the swatches tab, open new swatch, then colour books, then it is here where you can choose from a selection of Spot colours. 

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