Creating a custom color
There are lots of ways to create your own custom colors in Illustrator. Using the Color panel
(Window > Color) or Color Mixer, which you’ll learn more about in this section, you can apply
custom colors you create to an object’s fill and stroke and also edit and mix colors using
different color models (CMYK, for example). The Color panel and Color Mixer display the
current fill and stroke of the selected content, and you can either visually select a color from the
color spectrum bar at the bottom of the panel or mix your own colors in various ways. Next,
you’ll create a custom color using the Color Mixer.- With the Selection tool ( ), click in the gray guitar shape to select it (see the figure).
Tip
To enlarge the color spectrum, you can open the Color panel (Window > Color) and
drag the bottom of the panel down.