# Swatches

A swatch lets you define specific colors and textures that you can use to paint zones or line art in your drawings. You can use swatches to store solid and gradient colors, as well as textures, which allow you to paint with bitmap images.

You can add your own set of swatches to a color palette to define the colors in your animation. If you use swatches to color zones consistently throughout your movie, you can easily update the colors of your drawings when the color model changes.

The Toon Boom Studio color management system updates all zones and line art you paint when you make changes to the color properties of the swatch. For example, if you have a light green stripe on a pair of pants and you want to make the stripe appear darker on all of the pant drawings, all you have to do is change the properties of the swatch and Toon Boom Studio updates all zones that use that swatch with the new color properties.

See Also
Coloring Your Toon Boom Studio World
Painting Zones in Your Drawings
Closing Gaps in Your Drawings
Inking Line Art
Managing Your Colors with Palettes