Set Layer Color to color name

Question

This works:
set layer color of layer 1 to light blue
This doesn't:
set listOfColors to {"light blue", "green", "blue"}
set layer colour of layer 1 to item 1 of listOfColors
I can see that item 1 is text, and light blue is not text - is there some way to coerce it? Maybe I'm just being lazy but if color names exist, I'd rather use them.
Thanks for any help,
Emma

Answer 1

Those UI colours are app constants so NO double quotes… Also NO u in color on last line…
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5"
          tell the active document
                    set layer color of layer 1 to light blue
                    set listOfColors to {light blue, green, blue}
                    set layer color of layer 1 to item 2 of listOfColors
          end tell
end tell