Divine Spot Color Illustrator
You could name it Super Red.
Spot color illustrator. Figure 1 shows the Color panel from Adobe Illustrator and reflects the color of an object selected in this case Pantone 485 Coated. Perform a Save As so that you dont overwrite your spot colour version. Clicking on the icon A will convert the selected color to CMYK equivalents.
Spot colors are specially blended inks that are used in commercial printing when color consistency is critical. And thats how you create a spot color in Adobe Illustrator. Head to the Edit menu and select Edit Colors Convert to CMYK is the 7th item on that list.
If youre working in Illustrator use the Select Same Fill color and Select Same Stroke color to make sure all the instances of the spot color are replaced as you intend. I just upgraded from AI 2015 to 2019. For this reason its best to periodically go to your Illustrator menubar and select ViewOutput PreviewOverprint Preview and view your document for undesired overprint settings.
Select the exact color you want to convert in this example I chose 14-1064 TCX Select the book you want to convert to in this example I chose the Formula Guide Solid Coated This will then show you the closest color match from that book which you can find in the default Illustrator Pantone color libraries. Some predefined spot colors such as colors from the TOYO PANTONE DIC and HKS libraries are defined using Lab values. Create your Spot UV layer for the front of your business card on Artboard 3.
The problem is that by default you may not get the results you want. Patterns work very well with Spot UV printing but thin lines and small text dont work too well. When youre working with spot colors like Pantones in Adobe Illustrator overprint settings can dramatically affect the output results.
Illustrator color panel. In Illustrator CS2 when you apply raster-based effects for example Rasterize and Gaussian Blur at the object group or layer level to objects that contain multiple spot colors or a combination of spot and process color Illustrator converts the object color to either the documents process color space grayscale or bitmap. Since I started using AI almost 30 years ago Ive had a custom spot color palette that is the default swatch palette when I create a new document.