Making Confident Color Choices in Illustrator

In Illustrator, color flexibility and creativity go hand in hand, making it easy to explore ideas, tweak palettes, and revamp color as your design evolves. But with Illustrator’s incredible spectrum of color tools at your fingertips, how do you know which features move your work forward, and which leave you, hours later, still spinning your color wheels?

In this session, Laura Coyle shares her practical, creative approach to working with color in Adobe Illustrator. You’ll learn go-to ways to spark inspiration and land on that perfect color you’ve been searching for. And when you need a flexible process that supports last-minute changes or adapting a design for different outputs, Laura will show you how to keep things moving without losing momentum.

You’ll explore:

• Using Color Groups, Libraries, and Recolor Artwork to spark color ideas
• Refining palettes and sharing color swatches with your team
• Building color workflows that support quick changes and multiple versions
• Adapting color for print and social media as your project needs change
• What’s new and most colorfully useful in Illustrator 2026