Applying Colors

InDesign's Swatches palette, combined with the Tools palette, makes it easy to experiment with different colors. You can apply colors to frame backgrounds, lines, strokes, some imported images, and text.

1. Be sure the Swatches pane is open (Window ‚ Swatches, or F5).

2. Click on the two frames at the top of the page with the Selection tool.

   To select both, click one, then Shift+Click the other.

3. Make sure the Fill icon is selected in the Tools palette, as it is in Figure QS-19.

   
   Figure QS-19: Click a color to apply it to the background of a frame.

   This tells InDesign what you want to color the object, not any strokes it may have.

4. Click the name of the color you created in the previous section.

   The selected frames will now fill with the color.

5. Highlight the text CASE STUDY in the upper-left frame.

6. Again ensuring the Fill icon is selected in the Tools palette, click the [Paper] color in the Swatches pane.

   This makes the text white.

7. Choose File ‚ Save, or press z +S or Ctrl+S, to save your work.

Cross-Reference ‚  

For more information about applying colors, see Chapters 11 and 28.