Using True or PANTONE Colors

Using True or PANTONE Colors
In the preceding exercise, you chose a color from the Index Color tab of the Select Color dialog box.
Most of the time, you’ll find that the Index Color tab includes enough colors to suit your needs. But
if you’re creating a presentation drawing in which color selection is important, you can choose colors
from either the True Color or the Color Books tab of the Select Color dialog box.
The True Color tab offers a full range of colors through a color palette similar to the one found
in Adobe Photoshop and other image-editing programs.



You have the choice of using hue, saturation, and luminance, which is the HSL color model,
or you can use the RGB (red, green, blue) color model. You can select HSL or RGB from the Color
Model drop-down list in the upper-right corner of the dialog box.



You can also select from a PANTONE
color book
by using the Color Books tab. The Color Book
option lets you match colors to a PANTONE color book for offset printing.


TIP
The Files tab of the Options dialog box (choose Tools 
Options) contains the Color Book Locations
option, which tells AutoCAD where to look for the Color Book settings.
Let’s continue with our look at layers in AutoCAD.