Swatches Panel UI tweaks

[Arceom]

Working with swatches I've observed these little additions would be very useful.

Ability to...
1.- Select multiple swatches from color panel when no object is selected; so you can quickly delete, group, or move swatches between pallets.
2.- Delete selected swatches with keystroke.
3.- Create color groups inside a pallet, kind of like how groups are displayed in layers panel. This would help with organization and is more intuitive than jumping between pallets.
4.- UI visual aid to indicate if the color shown in stroke/fill is global, spot or overprint.
5.- UI visual aid to indicate if loaded in eyedroper is global, spot or overprint.
6.- Preview color chords before commiting them to the pallet.

Other color-related suggestions:
1.- Apply global color to object when sampling  with eyedrop tool from an object with global color. Currently, when you copy the global color from another object, it is a non-global version of that color.

2.- Linked colors (as described in others posts).

[Cristian Dragos]

+100000

An upgrade to the Swatches Panel would be awesome!

[thomaso]

+1 .... + 7,8,9,10,11,12,13:

On 3/15/2020 at 4:43 PM, Arceom said:

Ability to...

7. create all new swatches being global by default
8. have global swatches in application palettes
9. select more than 1 swatch to turn it to global
10. turn existing swatches to a spot colors
11. transfer their swatches with copy/paste of objects between documents
12. display (unfold) more than 1 palette at a time
13. auto-rename swatches if their values get adjusted

[fde101]

On 8/1/2020 at 11:16 AM, thomaso said:

have global swatches in application palettes

It has been explained on numerous other threads why this is not practical.  I would not expect this to happen, ever.

 

On 8/1/2020 at 11:16 AM, thomaso said:

create all new swatches being global by default

Not practical outside of document palettes.  They are already created as global by default when using the commands that create them as global swatches.  Simple stuff.

 

On 3/15/2020 at 11:43 AM, Arceom said:

1.- Select multiple swatches from color panel when no object is selected; so you can quickly delete, group, or move swatches between pallets.
2.- Delete selected swatches with keystroke.
3.- Create color groups inside a pallet, kind of like how groups are displayed in layers panel. This would help with organization and is more intuitive than jumping between pallets.
4.- UI visual aid to indicate if the color shown in stroke/fill is global, spot or overprint.

On 8/1/2020 at 11:16 AM, thomaso said:

10. turn existing swatches to a spot colors
11. transfer their swatches with copy/paste of objects between documents
12. display (unfold) more than 1 palette at a time

I agree that these would be very nice...  #12 was already brought up on other threads though.

 

On 8/1/2020 at 11:16 AM, thomaso said:

auto-rename swatches if their values get adjusted

This has already been discussed on numerous other threads.

 

On 3/15/2020 at 11:43 AM, Arceom said:

Currently, when you copy the global color from another object, it is a non-global version of that color.

That is because the eyedropper is picking up the color from the display on the screen, not from the document.  It always captures in RGB from what I can tell, and can pick up colors that are from other objects on the screen which are not actually part of the document (from the UI itself for example, or even from outside of the Affinity applications).

 

 

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