Creating named colors

Named colors
appear on the Color Line and in the Color Gallery. You can easily apply them to objects by clicking or by dragging. Xara LX provides a wide range of standard colors but these might not be exactly right for some drawings. In this case, you can easily create new named colors.

To create a named color

1. From the Utilities menu, choose Color Gallery.

2. In the Color Gallery select an existing color that is similar to the color you want to create.

3. Click New.

4. Enter a name for the color.

5. If you want the new color to be a shade (see shade color
) of the color, select Make color a shade of.

If you want the new color to just be a copy of the color, deselect Make color a shade of.

6. Click Create. The new named color appears on the Color Line and in the Color Gallery.

The color is also displayed in the Color Editor so you can edit it as required. See Changing named colors.

Tips

Named colors are very useful when creating drawings that use many shades of a few basic colors (the parent colors). Changing the parent color changes all shades of that parent.

If you want to create a named color using the color of an existing object, see Creating named colors from objects.

The Color Gallery already includes the 216 colors that match those in Microsoft Explorer and Netscape Navigator. These colors give the best results. If you create your own colors, they are displayed with dithering and so do not look as good. For this reason we suggest you do not create extra colors. See Internet bitmaps overview.

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Creating your own colors

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Related Topics

Named colors

Color Line

Color Editor

Color Gallery