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The standard colour patches have disappeared from my swatches palette. The one normally found in the top three lines of the dropdown menu. I have tried a re-installation but this has not cured the problem. Can anyone tell me how to recover these? I am really lost without them. Affinity Photo 1.2.1.267B7 OS X Yosemeite 10.10.3 Thank you David Mac

I've read that you have list mode in the pipeline, which is great, but i'm missing the option to make my own arrangements of colors inside the palette. Actually adding new swatches uses a photoshop like approach: to fill the available space in the grid color after color, fixed way. In illustrator you can change the order of swatches at any moment and arrange color in folders, making rows of color sets inside the swatch palette, which is very useful for interface design or comic design. I noted that in Affinity designer you can easily create multiple custom sets and change them fast from the drop down list, but is not as practical and fast as organizing them in one palette. Also, option to make swatches bigger will be very welcome. I've attached a comparison of one custom color set as I use on illustrator and how i get it on Affinity. It is clear that actually in illustrator is much more useful and practical at this moment.

I can't manage to rearrange, reorder my swatches in a palette. I mean if I add a color to a palette, it comes in the first position and I can't move it from there (to have brown together, yellow together …) Is there something I missed or is it not possible ?

At the left of the screen in some tools there are a Fill and Stroke box that allow color selectors to be pulled down. In the Swatches portion there are 3 fixed color selections none, black, and white. These do not work for me. In the docked (right) swatches panel there the 3 fixed swatches do work.

In Affinity Designer the swatches palette has a "recent" area that shows recently used colours. The odd thing for me is it will show many different swatches of the same colour. Why is this? This seems confusing and redundant to me. I would think that colours of the same value should only appear once in the "recent" colours. Is this the way it was planned or has something gone awry? I wasn't sure whether to post this in the "Feature Requests" or the "Questions" but because I'm not sure about the reasoning behind the current behaviour I posted it here.

Is there a reason why the colour swatches aren't part of the colour choice systems in all of the popups? i.e. HSL wheel, lab and cmyk sliders and ...wait for it... "swatches" If I've gone to the trouble of saving swatches I'd like to access them across the board throughout the app, layer colours, effects colours, gradient, fill and line colours... etc.

Hi, Currently, there is multiple frictions in the App while trying to change colors to shape or text. - Right now the UI never remember what you did before. Everytime I click shape by shape, it's like the UI is showing a random tab instead of the last used one. - Not sure why you can't pick the text color directly with the text tool. You always have to go to selection mode to see the color option. - Not sure why the color picker doesn't change the current color after picking one. You have to click on the picked color to apply it. - Swatches are very tedious to use, esp with effect. Like the color overlay FX. The color drop down is very basic and doesn't let you pick any swatches. So everytime, I am showing the swatches in the App UI in the background and use the color drop on it to apply it to the effect. I think it will be a huge benefit if the swatches where available from any color pickup like the native OSX one. Thanks :)

Hello there, I haven't found a way to show the colour palette in a list. For me, this is the easiest way to manage and choose colours, as you can see not just the tiny swatch, but the name of it and/or their CMYK/RGB components. If it's not implemented, I'd like you to take it as a feature request. That's the way I used to work in Freehand and in Illustrator as well. Thanks and congratulations!

How do I import swatches? kat

It would be great if users had the ability to select PANTONE colours from the Colour Chooser dialog or from the Swatches tab.