MACROMEDIA FreeHand MX, Use Manual

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Adding colors from color libraries
FreeHand comes with predefined spot- and process-color libraries that are part of commercially
available color-matching systems. Color-matching systems provide printed and onscreen color
swatches for designers and contain instructions for print professionals so that they can print the
colors you specify. Consult with your commercial printer to learn which color libraries they
support and recommend.
The following color libraries (all process color, unless noted) are shipped with FreeHand:
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Crayon arranges colors as commonly found in multicolor crayon sets.
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DIC Color Guide provides a standard set of spot colors used for printing color illustrations
(used primarily in Japan).
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Focoltone organizes colors by their common percentage of cyan, magenta, yellow, or black.
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Grays displays only tints of black.
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Munsell colors are organized by hue, value, and chroma.
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PANTONE spot colors appear in chromatic order.
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PANTONE process (four-color and Hexachrome) colors are in chromatic order, including
process-color simulations of the spot-color library.
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Toyo organizes spot colors first by hue and then by saturation.
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Web Safe is a library of 8-bit-compatible color containing 216 colors named after their RGB
and hexadecimal values.
Custom colors display the name of the custom color library with a library-specific color reference.
PANTONE Hexachrome colors comprise two of the custom color libraries in FreeHand. In the
Swatches panel, these colors appear with hexagon-shaped icons to the right of the color names.