Rahul Sharma: Hello. Welcome to Adobe Technical Support.
Mirjam Pijning: Hi
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Rahul Sharma: As I can understand, you want to use PMS 2148C swatch color, is that correct ?
Mirjam Pijning: That is correct
Mirjam Pijning: But it is not available in the color book PMS Solid Coated
Rahul Sharma: I apologize for the inconvenience.
Rahul Sharma: I'll be glad to help you with your issue today.
Rahul Sharma: May I have your phone number to update your profile?
Mirjam Pijning: +31 6 46 23 03 62
Rahul Sharma: Thank you for sharing phone number.
Rahul Sharma: Which version of Illustrator and Indesign you are using ?
Mirjam Pijning: CC
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Rahul Sharma: I would like to inform you that there are limited set of colors provided with Illustrator/Indesign, for more colors you will need to contact Pantone.
Mirjam Pijning: Which is pretty ridiculous, since Adobe claims to have THE software for graphic designers
Mirjam Pijning: Pantone cannot change your product, can they?
Rahul Sharma: It is not about changing software it is about colors. There are a number of colors available in Swatches Library but when need a specific Pantone color it might not be available because there is limited set of Pantone color available, you can create a new color swatch in Illustrator Indesign but the name color swatch is defined by Pantone so you will need to contact Pantone to get the exact color you are looking for.
Mirjam Pijning: I should think that making more colors available IS about changing software. Sad to hear you cannot help me.
Rahul Sharma: I apologize for the inconvenience.
Rahul Sharma: Please submit a feature request using this form : http://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html
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Rahul Sharma: We will consider your suggestion in future releases.

The ability to create a vector graphic in Illustrator, fill it with a variable spot color swatch (ie "Variable Color 1/2/3" etc.) and then when that spot color is imported into InDesign you can define it to match your project. Ideally on a per-instance basis, but even just editing the color globally from the swatches panel would be a big help. It would save hiving to make multiple versions of a graphic for each color you need - and that you may never need again.

For now my workaround is to make a layered PDF from Illustrator with a layer for each color and then turn on/off the various layers in the links panel, but not quite as effective as a variable color and gets tricky when the layers get complex.

I have a workbook/training document that has sections, and each section uses a different color scheme. I used the Color Theme tool to create the different color themes for the various sections. But with each new theme, I lost the preceding floating palette. It would be so helpful to be able to reopen a color theme floating palette that is based on a theme you saved in the Swatches panel. It would be more convenient to drag the floating palette around the screen (near to the objects where you want to apply fill or stroke) than to have to undock, drag, expand, and collapse the color palette itself, especially if you have a workspace all arranged that you don't want to disrupt. Plus, the floating palette has larger color thumbnails than does the swatch palette, so swatches are easier to see on monitors where the resolution is set high.

Having both RGB and CMYK in swatches is a great advantage if you want to have a single document exported both to screen and print - but it turned out to be a swatch mess... what about a way to acknowledge similar colors as "equivalents" so we could replace entire document swatches from RGB>CMYK (or the other way around) when this export is needed? changing them individually will eventually cause mistakes.
and what about replacing entire link library from RGB>CMYK in order to export proper colours? I converted them and assigned all of their profiles in PS but now i must change all the links in the document (and all the swatches) before exporting - surely there's a workflow or a way around this...

There is big problem in InDesign for colours, because not every one remember different type of CMYK property .
Just take an idea so you can understand [ When you draw a owl in illustrator, so you have a lot of colours options to change by using colour helper or if need then add from swatches, it's that easy, but in InDesign that's very hard to that, because if you have to change colour then first you have to know that colours CMYK property, then you can add into swatches then you can use that colour. So that's the big different ]

Please help us to add colours in to only colour panel just same like illustrator.
We wait for your update.
Thanks

When you create or change a paragraph style, in the window where all the formats of the paragraph style are listed, you can change the character color, you can also create a new swatch by double clicking on the fill or stroke color icon. But once the new swatch is created, you can not imediately select it for your paragraph style, you have to change the category in the window (for example go to underline options), then go back to character color to use the new swatch.
Instead it should be that when the create new swatch dialog is closed, a refresh of available swatches appears in the list of character colors. By the way, in ancient Indesign versions this worked.

The Color Group function is really useful, but it only works in the creation phase if you select multiple colours. There's no obvious way to add a colour to a group after it's been created - there's no contextual menu option, there's no palette menu option, and seemingly, you can't drag and drop it into the folder, which is counterintuitive as this is something users do all the time with Layers. Similarly, color groups should function the same way inside the CC Libraries palette. There should be a shortcut to add any selected Swatch or Color Group to the current Library, with a warning if duplicates already exist (based on color value, not name); with option to keep separate swatches or replace with new one.