Can we override the designer defaults to output CMYK be default?

We have a need to output cmyk only. I’m hoping for ideas to do this at a global level.

I’ve considered style sheets but would like some ideas. Not knowing if that would even work.

Black is defined by default as cmyk, white as RGB, webblue is also RGB

It also appears that at a template level I can’t re-define those colors.

TIA

In the Connect designer-> Edit menu-> Colors…

there you can add a new color and choose it to be a CMYK.

Hope that helps.

Black, White, WebBlue, and Gray are all html colors that we use, Black and White are in the color editor but cannot be redefined as CMYK, even though Black is listed as CMYK by default it seems that it is rendering RGB anyway. We added alternative colors like WhiteCMYK but, I’d like to use or modify the default color (Black) or target intent without having to assign everything a new color. Even if it could be a one stop spot like an entry in CSS would be most helpful.

Again, thanks.

So the answer is rather simple, Nicholas from O.L.got me started in the right direction.

The designer doesn’t use the Black that’s defined as CMYK by default. To use it, you add it to the default CSS html element:

html { font-family: Gotham Narrow Book; font-size: 8pt; color: Black; }

Other colors like White, need to be redefined and use a custom name when they’re applied because they’re RGB by default…

One thing of note. Using “Black” is case sensitive, using “black” will call the RGB version.