Applying colors from the Swatches panel

You can use the Swatches panel to apply colors to the stroke or fill of path objects.

To apply a color to a selected object:

1 Click any color well for the appropriate attribute to make it active.
2 Choose a color:
In the Swatches panel, click a swatch to apply the color to the stroke or fill of the selected object and to assign that color to the active color well.
Open the color well pop-up menu and click a swatch.