In illustrator when I apply 100 Black to objects the colour is still black composite

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November 7, 2016
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I have just updated to Illustrator 21.0.0. I work on a macbook pro retina. Inside a CMYK file, whenever I apply a colour of 100 K to an object, it is still converted to a composite black. The only way to sort it out was to manually input the values in the colour picker, C0, M0, Y0, K100.

My friend works on a windows machine and he doesn't have this problem. Has anyone else encountered this issue?

Regards,

Grieux

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Correct answer Ton Frederiks

Yes, it has probably been an RGB document in a previous life.

When an RGB document is converted to CMYK, the swatches get converted too.

If you use such a converted black swatch you get the rich black.

In such a document it is better to get rid of the swatches and load the default CMYK swatches.

Ton Frederiks

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Yes, it has probably been an RGB document in a previous life.

When an RGB document is converted to CMYK, the swatches get converted too.

If you use such a converted black swatch you get the rich black.

In such a document it is better to get rid of the swatches and load the default CMYK swatches.

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Anonymous

Thank you for your answer.

I understand what you say, but in this case shouldn't the converted swatch indicate the composition for rich black? In my case it says 100k, when I rest the mouse on it for a second, as you can see in the first screenshot. But the color reported by the color picker is rich black (second screenshot). It's awkward. I have reloaded the swatches and now it's fine. Thank you so much.