Important
Talk to your Herff Jones representative before you decide to use color on your yearbook pages. The use of color may involve additional charges.
There are two ways to print color on your yearbook pages:
Spot Color
A spot color is an extra color ink added to the page. Choose spot colors from a Pantone® formula guide to add individual colors to elements on a page. For example, a black and white page could be accented with headlines printed in a red spot color. The use of one spot color on a black-and-white spread requires an additional printing plate on the press: one to print black and another to print red.
Process color
Color photographs are reproduced on yearbook pages using process colors, which simulate the continuous tones in a color photograph by combining four hues: cyan (blue), magenta, yellow, and black. These four-color pages are more expensive than spot color pages (using one or two spot colors with black) because the press requires a separate printing plate for each process color.
Process Color Blends
If you are printing four-color photographs on a page and would like to create type or graphics for the page in color as well, use a process color blend. With a process blend, you can simulate a spot color by combining specific percentages of cyan, magenta, yellow and black. Do not choose a color based on what you see on your computer monitor. Choose process blends from the Herff Jones Colors poster or a Pantone® formula guide.
Color and FreeHand
Open the Swatches or Color List palette
- Go to the Window menu
- Select Panels
- Select Swatches (FreeHand 10) or Color List (FreeHand 9 or below).
or 
Create a Spot Color
- In the Swatches palette:
- Click on the arrow in the upper right corner of the palette.
- In the Color List palette:
- Click on the Options pop-up menu.
- A menu pops up with the different color libraries.
- Scroll down to Pantone Coated.
- In the dialog box, type the HJ number from the Your Colors booklet or the Pantone color number from the Pantone Coated book in the PANTONE: field.
- The color will appear highlighted in the window below the PANTONE: field.
- Click OK.
- The color is then added to the Swatches or Color List palettes.
Tints of spot colors
Tints, or percentages of a color, can be created in the Tints palette.
- A spot color must be created before a tint can be made.
- Click on the Tints tab in the Color Mixer.
- Choose a spot color from the pop-up list.
- Pick a percentage by either:
- clicking on a percentage in the bar below the pop-up menu, or
- by moving the slider.
- Use even percentages up to 60% for best results for example: 20%, 30%, or 40%.
Add tint to the Swatches or Color List palette
- Click on the color chip in the bottom right corner of the Tints dialog box.
- Drag it onto the Swatches or Color List palette. It appears with the correct color name.
OR
Click on the Add to Swatches or Add to Color List button.
- In the Add to Color List dialog box, click Add. The color is already named.
- The color is added to the Swatches or Color List palette.
Create a Process Color
Process colors must be created as CMYK mixes.
Open the Color Mixer palette
- Go to the Window menu
- Select Panels
- Select Color Mixer
or 
Create the color
- Click on the CMYK button:
- Freehand 10 - click on the top button.
- FreeHand 9 and below - click on the first button.
- Type the percentages of the color from the Herff Jones Your Colors booklet or the Pantone Process book next to the appropriate cyan, magenta, yellow, or black chip or
- Move the sliders on the right to the appropriate percentages.
- The color appears on the bottom right side of the mixer.
Add the swatch to the Swatches or Color List palette
Either:
- Click on the color chip and drag it onto the Swatches or Color List palette. The color appears with the correct CMYK mixture name.
OR
- Freehand 10 - click on the Add to Swatches (bottom) button in the Color Mixer.
- FreeHand 9 and below - click on the Add to Color List (last) button in the Color Mixer.
- An Add to Color List dialog box appears.
- Keep the default color name.
- Click ADD.
Create a Process Color Tint
- Click on the Tints tab in the Color Mixer.
- Choose the base color (the CMYK color just created) from the pop-up list.
- Pick a percentage by either:
- clicking on a percentage in the bar below the pop-up menu
- or by moving the slider.
- Use even percentages up to 60% for best results for example: 20%, 30%, or 40%.
Add tint to the Swatches or Color List palette
- Click on the color chip in the bottom right corner of the Tints dialog box.
- Drag it onto the Swatches or Color List palette. It appears with the correct color name.
OR
- Click on the Add to Swatches or Add to Color List button.
- In the Add to Color List dialog box, click Add. The color is already named.
- The color is added to the Swatches or Color List palette.
