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- Alright, so once you assemble

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a sufficient number of swatches,

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the challenge becomes managing them,

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which is why, among other things,

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Illustrator allows you to
search your swatches by name

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and you can do so from the
Color Picker dialog box.

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To get there, go to the active attribute

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at the bottom of the toolbox
and double click on it

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and that will bring up the
Color Picker dialog box.

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Then click on the Color Swatches button

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and you'll see a list of
swatches that are saved

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inside of this document
and it's important to note

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that swatches are indeed
saved along with the document.

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Now, in addition to this
long list of swatches

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over here on the far left
side of the dialog box,

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we also have this column
of tiny little slices

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which represent the colors as well

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and so you can drag the
sliders up and down this column

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in order to switch to a different swatch

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in the left hand list.

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The other thing you can
do is click down here

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in the search field and so, for example,

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let's say I want to take a look

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at all the swatches that
have no black in them.

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If I enter the letter
K then I'm going to see

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all of the swatches with
the letter K in their name,

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including just one of my
global swatches, Sky blue.

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The rest are automatically named swatches

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that are created automatically

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when you make a new print document.

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Then if I want to rule out
any K values except zero,

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I go ahead and add =0 like so

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and that goes ahead and takes the CMYK

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red and yellow and so forth
off the top of the list

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and it also eliminates any
automatically named colors

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that contain black

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and we also have fewer slices
in this column right here,

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so notice now that we just
have a relative handful.

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Now, you could also, of course, search for

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a specific swatch.

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For example, if I wanted to find Seafoam

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I could enter the letter S

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and then I'll see all
of my swatches that have

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an S character in them.

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There's only four of
them, as you can see here

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and, as a result, we only have four

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big color slices in this central column.

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Now let's say you want to search

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for just those fonts that you've created

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and named yourself.

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Well, there isn't really
any way to do that per se,

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you don't have wildcard
characters and that sort of thing,

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but you do have the letter
e, and you may wonder

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why in the world I would mention that.

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Well, let me show you.

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I'll go ahead and cancel out here

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and I'll switch over to this
rather compulsive document

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that lists a bunch of common color names.

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Now, these are by no means all
the color names, of course,

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but they are a representative few.

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Now I'll go ahead and scroll down

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to the bottom of the Layers panel

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and I'll turn off this layer of colors

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and then I'll turn on
this layer right here

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and what we're seeing is 24 out of 26

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of the letters in the alphabet,

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I'm not listing X or J, which
are extremely rare characters,

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but all the other characters
in their order of popularity

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in the English language,

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and so the most popular
letter in English is E

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and then second is T, A, O and so forth.

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Among my list of color names right here,

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it runs a little differently.

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What I found was I had 24
occurrences of the letter E,

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eight of T and then more of A,

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lots of N and R and so forth,

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but some of these characters I ruled out

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because R, for example, is used in

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any RGB definition, C is used in any

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CMYK definition and so forth,

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and so, if you're just trying

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to find colors that you've named,

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it's very possible that
they're going to contain

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the letter E, and then what
I did next was basically

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rank these letters by how popular they are

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and I gave them little awards here, so

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the blue ribbon goes to E,

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the second place red ribbon goes to A,

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usually a third place ribbon is white, but

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that's not going to
work for this document,

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so, anyway, you get a sense
of what I've done here

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and I've crossed out the letters

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that you don't want to search for.

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Then I figured out,
alright, all of these colors

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are covered by a search for the letter E

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and then these guys
with the red letter As,

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they are covered by a search for A,

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and you can't do a search
for E and A by the way,

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you just have to do independent searches,

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but between E and A, we've
covered just about every color.

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If we move on to searching for N,

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then we rule out everybody but gold

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and then finally, just for fun,

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I was telling you this
was a compulsive document,

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I've gone ahead and highlighted

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all those award winning letters

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inside of our various color names

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and so if I go ahead and switch back

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to my calendar document and I double click

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on the fill in order to bring
up the Color Picker dialog box

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and then click on the
Color Swatches button,

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I can now enter the letter E and I will,

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not coincidentally, find every single one

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of my custom colors, along with

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the default colors CMYK Red, Yellow,

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Green, Blue and Magenta,

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the only one we're not seeing is Cyan

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because it does not contain the letter E.

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And that's how you search
through your swatches,

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specifically here inside
the Color Picker dialog box.