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On the left you can see the new color is a tint of the parent "yellow" and so the editor provides
only paler tints of the parent color. On the right, if you select a shade, you get to choose any
lighter or darker shades of the parent color.

If you want to use this color in many places in the document it’s recommended that you
also make this a Named Color, so it appears on the Color Line, for easy picking. Just
click on the NEW NAMED COLOR label icon on the top of the Color Editor and give it a
name. It will now appear on the Color Line where you can pick it for use on other objects.

Editing the parent color
The key point of using tints, shades and linked colors is that they track any changes to
the parent color. To see this working try editing the NAMED COLOR that is the parent (drag
it from the COLOR LINE to the COLOR EDITOR and alter the color). You will see the objects
with the tint, shade or linked color change in sync with the parent.

NOTE: Be careful not to edit the color of objects on the page to which you’ve applied
NAMED, TINTS, SHADES, or LINKED COLORS as this will change them to LOCAL COLORS.