How to Create a Darker Tint for Monochrome Colors Without Adding Black

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July 23, 2024
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How can I get the 'food title' color a darker tint, but to blend more into the original color at the bottom corner without having to add black?

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rob day

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Hi @Hendy374084080dng , You can create your color swtches as RGB (or Lab) color mode and then make a color managed conversion to CMYK by changing the Color Mode to CMYK later or letting the conversion happen on an Export to PDF. Here you can see the swatch color mode is RGB, and Separation Setup shows the conversion to CMYK (0%Black in this case) using the document’s assigned CMYK profile:

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Hendy374084080dngAuthor

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What do you mean that it will become a processed color anyway?

I want it to be a spot color so that everything this color should be changed if I edit the color.

Willi Adelberger

Community Expert

Any spot color changes to process if transparency is used for objects with that color.
But I think you confuse global with spot color. What you describe what you want to afford indicates that a global color is what you want. Global colors are in Illustrator, in InDesign means the use of swatches the same.

Willi Adelberger

Community Expert

You have chooseb spot olor. Do you really want to use an unnamed spot color. If you blend any spot color with transparncy it will beciome a process color anyway. Change it to process.
To get the color darker you will have to increase all process colors uniform or add black. Why do you not want to add black as it is the cleanest way to get a darker tint of the same hue?

John D Herzog

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I would have to disagree with the second point. Adding black usually muddies up the color. If you have a color with just CMY and you want to make a clean darker version, you would want to add more CMY proportionally. You would start adding black once you hit a limit on the other colors.

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