InDesign: Spot uv colour not on logo but around it

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October 31, 2025
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Help! My seperate spot varnish layer colour fills the rectangle background of my logo and NOT the logo. How can I change this? I have made tests with text and end up with the same results.

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rob day

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Hi @Nullar , Is the logo text set in InDesign or some other application?

If it is set in InDesign, the fill color can be a Mixed Ink swatch—CMYK + the Varnish Spot

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NullarAuthor

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Hello. No it is a CMYK logo created in photoshop. I have just done a test
with a simple circle and the spot colour is doing what it needs to do in
Indesign, so I guess that the photoshop logo needs to be converted to
something else? I tried it as a tiff file, but the logo is in a square and
this did not work.
Thank you for your response

rob day

Community Expert

In Photoshop you can create a Spot Channel for the varnish. When you place in InDesign the spot channel color will get added to the Swatches panel as a spot color.

Placed in InDesign, the Spot Color gets added to Swaches:

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