How to set a custom swatch library to automatically load in new documents?

Question

I work for a company with brand guidelines, and we have a custom swatch library file with our brand colors in it. In previous versions of Illustrator, I was able to set up the defualt new-document settings so that only that swatch library showed/loaded. Not the default multi-color library. I recently updated Illustrator the latest version and it reverted back to loading in all the default swatches, and I can't figure out how to change it back to just my branded swatches. How do you do this in the latest version? TIA!

Ton Frederiks · Answer

Your library was saved in a New Dociment Preset.

When you use that as preset to create new documents you will alwys have that library.

You probably lost that preset when updating Illustrator without the previous settings.

See if you can find that preset document or else you need to create a new one with your color swatches.

One way to save it as a preset is to save it in the Illustrator application folder > Support Files > New Document Profiles.

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