How to know is text color RGB or CMYK?

[Jonathan32years]

I add some text to InDesign document. I have learned that you can add different color (RGB or CMYK) to InDesign and that there is not one color profile for whole document, like in Photoshop it has. 

I'm adding text and some elements to InDesign and I want to use RGB colors. When picking color it shows values also in RGB and CMYK (see picture below). How do I know am I using RGB or CMYK? 

Thank you so much for answering!

[Derek Cross · Accepted solution]

Look in the Color Swatch panel – CMYK has a four color symbol and a capital C and RGB has a three colour one and a capital R (and they have the color percentage compositions too, which you can rename more meaningfully instead of the percentages).

[Jonathan32years]

Thank you for answering. 

With text selected it shows in Swatches that it is named as "Black" and when I put cursor over that text it shows the CMYK values, so it's CMYK color, just like it needs to be! 🙂 

[Jonathan32years]

Oh damn, I was talking about wrong document. I meant that this one needed to be RGB color and now it's CMYK and I should change that. I guess every single text I have in this document is CMYK, not RGB, what it needs to be. Not sure what would be best option to change that. Maybe I shoud make a new document and in the start make it as Web use, this one I made as Print and that's why it put text color automatically CMYK... and if I copy these texts and all other elements, maybe they all would turn RGB and I wouldn't have to change every single one manually 

[rob day · Accepted solution]

Also—with the text selected—check the Color panel. It‘s possible for the text fill to be an unnamed color and not show in Swatches. 

If the fill is a Swatch the swatch name will show along with the values, so a Lab fill:

Unnamed CMYK fill

Unnamed RGB fill

A text selection with a mix of fills ????

[Jonathan32years]

Thank you for answering,

I replied to Derek Cross also and told that my text is all CMYK and it should be RGB. I need to find a way to change that now that I know that it is CMYK

[rob day]

On a PDF Export you can convert all of the document’s CMYK colors to RGB by choosing an RGB Destination profile in the Export Output tab. An Export to Interactive PDF will automatically convert all color to sRGB.

Or, if you want to change the document colors—select Add Unnamed Colors from the Swatches flyout, and then select all of the panel’s swatches, choose Swatch Options..., and set the Color Mode to RGB: