Quick guide:

ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR
SWATCHES PANEL

Fill & Stroke Swatch view

These indicate your objects’ options
fill and stroke colours. View your swatches
Click on the Fill or Stroke in List view or
icon to activate - the icon Thumbnail view.
on top is the one activated.

Swatch panel
options menu
Click on icon to
activate the fly-
out option menu.
Adding, Duplicating
Colour Swatch or Deleting a
Double click on the swatch are just
swatch to view swatch some of the options
options. found.

Pattern Swatch Global process

When pasting a new colour
pattern from another
This triangle
document, the pattern
indicates that the
will automatically
swatch is a global
appear in your
process colour. This
swatches panel.
means if you modify
Swatch kind the swatch, all
This allows you to select the kind of swatch objects using that
you’d like to view (e.g. Color Swatch, Pattern color are updated.
Swatch etc). This is especially helpful if
you’re struggling to find a pattern swatch
amongst a vast number of colour swatches.

To access your Swatches panel go

to menu Window > Swatches
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