Page 190 - Xara Designer Pro X17

190 Color Handling

NAMED COLORS: The Named Colors appear with their complementary Linked Colors
(if present in the document, see below).
LINKED COLORS are represented differently on the color line by smaller rounded
rectangles. When editing templates, to change the color scheme of the design you
should only normally edit the Named Colors (large squares) and leave the Linked
colors unchanged.
SPOT COLORS: If your document contains spot colors (on page 568), they appear on
the Color Line (and in the Color Gallery) as circles.
PALETTE COLORS: By default, there is a 'Standard Palette' of 46 pre-defined colors.
There are 5 shades of 7 standard hues and 10 shades of gray, black and white.
Standard Palette colors are not editable (i.e they are not Named Colors) and are
designed as a simple, limited selection of colors to apply to objects (either by
dragging on to the object or clicking). Use the Color Gallery (on page 205) to show
other palettes like Web Colors or Pantone® Colors (if available).
Little markers in the color icons shows which of the named colors (if any) or palette
colors have been applied to the selected object(s).

Diamond markers show the colors used by the selected objects. A diamond
in the top-left corner indicates the fill color, in the top-right corner indicates
the line color.
Cross-shaped markers show the current color attributes if there are no
objects selected. Line color on the right, fill color on the left.
Triangular markers show the colors of a fill type (on page 289) if you have
applied one (linear, circular, elliptical, etc).

This works also when choosing a color with the color picker from existing objects, see
Using the eye-dropper to pick colors (on page 194). The color line markers update
immediately and indicate the color of the object under the eye-dropper as you're dragging
around.

Re-ordering colors on the color line
Only named colors can be re-arranged on the Color Line. "Ctrl + drag" colors along the
Color Line. This also reorders the COLOR GALLERY (on page 205).

Color line context menu
Right click on a color on the Color Line to show a context sensitive menu with the
following options: