Color—allows you to select from a palette of common colors, or choose your own by entering RGB values or by moving the color picker to a new spectrum position. Setting the color for text and background is a property in the Appearance panel. This property panel is only available for components that have the color functionality.
Click Choose to assign the current selection.
Variable—assigns a color stored in a string variable. For example, to assign dark blue:
Click the Variables tab.
Click + to add a variable.
Select String as the type of value the new variable stores.
Type a descriptive name in the Name box.
Set Default Value to 0000FF or #0000FF—which is the hexadecimal code for dark blue.