

Once you are happy with the gradient you can drag the gradient swatch from the top right hand side of the panel and drop it on your main swatch panel to save it.Īnother cool thing we can do with gradient swatches is to change the direction of them with the gradient tool from our Adobe Illustrator Tool bar. If you want to make and edit your own gradient swatch in Adobe Illustrator you need to open the gradient panel (Window>Gradients) from this panel you can drag and drop solid swatches from your main Swatch panel on to the gradient bar to build your gradient swatch, you can also delete colours individually by dragging them off of your gradient slider. Again in your swatch libraries menu in the bottom left of your swatches panel there is a huge variety of gradient swatches that are pre made that you can load in and use. Adobe Illustrator Gradient SwatchesĪ Gradient Swatch in Adobe Illustrator is a mixture of solid swatches in the same fill or stroke area. By using colour groups you can also use the Adobe Illustrator Recolouring feature.

Just choose the one you want and you can drag individual colours across in to your main Adobe Illustrator Swatches panel or you can drag an entire colour group across if you want the entire selection. When you click on the swatch Libraries button in the bottom left of your Adobe Illustrator Swatches panel you will notice a vast amount of other themed swatch libraries that you can load in. If there is a specific reference you need just type the number in the top search bar and it will find it for you. This will bring up a separate Swatches panel with all the Pantone colours in, you can click on each of the colours you require and they will then add to your main Swatches panel. To add a Pantone Swatch to your Adobe Illustrator Swatches panel you need to click on the small swatch libraries menu at the bottom left hand side of the Swatches panel you then go to Colour Books>Pantone Solid Coated.
