I don't know if this is a "bug" or a "suggestion" - it's just based on how I work with the Artistic text tool.
If I have a heading saying for example "our values", and I just click-drag the word "values", if I want the change the colour of the word "values", I click on eyedropper to quickly pick a screen colour and the text gets de-selected and the colour of the whole phrase gets changed. If instead I have "values" selected and I click in the colour panel and drag the colour to, for example, black, it works fine on changing the colour on just my text selection.
I would like to be able to change colour of only the highlighted artistic text using the eyedropper as I cannot always pick the exact same colour using the colour panel.
- just a thought.