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Spot and process colors
Spot and process colors correspond to the two main ink types used in commercial printing.
A process color is printed using a combination of the four standard CMYK process inks: cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. By blending these inks in varying proportions, the printer can reproduce most colors.
A spot (or custom) color is a special premixed ink that is used with, or instead of, CMYK process inks, and which requires its own plate on the press.
The difference between the two colors is that process colors are printed as four-color separations, corresponding to the four process inks. Spot colors do not need to be separated, since a spot color is printed on a single plate.
FreeHand includes several color libraries that you can import in whole or in part into your drawings. For more information, see Editing colors.
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