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The color line
The Color Line is displayed at the bottom of the window. It shows you the current fill and line colors,
provides access to the color editor and provides a palette of pre-defined colors including a special "no
color".
Color swatch:
The outer part of the color swatch on the left-hand end of the Color Line
shows the line color and the center shows the fill color. These are the
colors of any selected objects, or the current color attributes if no objects
are selected.
This button provides access to the color editor
Color picker: Use the eye-dropper to pick a color from any part of the
document or any part of the computer screen. See Using the eye-dropper
to pick colors
for details.
No color: Clicking this applies a "no color fill". Shift-clicking applies "no
color" to a line. Note that this is not the same as 100% transparent. "No
color" and transparency are different. A shape with transparency applied
remains a solid shape whereas a shape filled with "no color" is effectively
hollow. The No Color
button can also be used to restore the original colors to a photo which
has had a contone color applied.
Current Fill color
Current Line color
If the length of the Color Line exceeds the window, you can scroll through the Color Line with the scroll
bar below or by "Alt + dragging" the Color Line.
Web Designer MX Premium provides several options for the displayed size of the Color Line (described
in Customizing Web Designer Premium).
Colors on the color line
Named (Theme) Colors: First comes the Named Colors (if present in the
document, see below). Named colors are used to give templates and
designs theme colors, so that the color scheme of a design can easily be
changed without editing every object in it individually.
Linked Colors are represented differently on the color line by smaller
rounded rectangles, so it's much easier to distinguish which are normal
independent Named Colors and which are linked to a parent. See
Creating a Tint, Shade or Linked color
.
Palette colors: There are 46 pre-defined palette colors. There are 5
shades of 7 standard hues and 10 shades of grey, black and white.
Palette colors are not editable (i.e they are not Named Colors) and are
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