Reply To: RGB vs CMYK Swatches in Indesign

It’s extremely rare that I would make a logo or anything with solid colors in Illustrator as RGB. I’m not sure what you mean by AI defaults to RGB. You can set the color space of the Illustrator doc when you create it.

The only AI documents I would make in RGB are “fine art” — like something photorealistic or with lots of gradients and stuff. For logos or icons or basic graphics, make them in CMYK in Illustrator. Then they’ll match the CMYK colors in InDesign.