I need to set a specific color in Dorico for specific elements, like the psalm pointing shown here. The printer will convert to PMS in pre-flight, but as this is a 2-color printing, I need to use only two colors throughout the entire document (many hundreds of pages and multiple PDFs). That means matching this specific red across Dorico and InDesign.
I’m not sure how to do that. I see a color picker in the paragraph style I’ve created, but no way to specificy a hex value. Is there something I’m missing?
You can specify hex in the Windows color picker. But I think you’re on Mac – is this not available there?
Doesn’t look like it.
I do see this, which I might be able to make work, but I’m not sure:
I think if you set that second one to RGB Sliders, you’ll get a hex field.
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On a Mac, look in Applications > Utilities for Digital Colour Meter.app. You can hover the pointer over a colour and it will display the values in various formats.
The View menu in that app has an item - Display Values - which gives some choices for number format.
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If this is actually 2-colour printing, e.g. two separations for two inks, then you’ll need to do all of that in InDesign. You can’t create spot colour separations in Dorico.
I’d suggest one way to go about it is to use CMYK values, and assign the spot colour as 100% Magenta. (e.g. use the Magenta plate as your 2nd plate, then let the printer choose the ink.)
Pantone Management System? That’s not a colour space you convert a document to – it just specifies what ink to use.
As ever, be guided by what the printer asks for. Are they saying they will convert specific CMYK values into one separation…?
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