Defining color swatch/pallete for Designer and Photo

[HrvojeL]

Hello,

I'm using both Designer and Photo products in parallel for web design projects.

For a project I usually have a color theme defined. This could be 5 main colors plus 10-20 additional colors which are derived from main ones.

Is it possible to define the custom color pallete in Designer and Photo (or even to share between) ? I did not find that option.

Also, my prefered way would be to do that in some text configuration file - you know, to open config file in Notepad and just paste in the custom pallete name together with list of colors in hexa format and that's it. That way I don't have to go and manually select each color and put them on a pallete.

Please, let me know what are my options in this case ?

Thank you,
Hrvoje

 

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, @HrvojeL.

In the Swatches studio panel for either Photo or Designer you can click on the "hamburger" menu and choose "Create Application Palette":

You can then add your colors to that palette, and they will be available in any documents you work on in that application. Once you've set it up, you can use other entries in that menu to Export your palette to a .afpalette file, which you can then import into the other application. If you were on a Mac you could also create a System Palette, shared among all applications.

Note that Application Palettes (and System Palettes) cannot contain global colors, though. So if those are important to you you'll need to build a Document Palette instead. In that case, it might be better to embed your palette into an otherwise empty Template File, and start new projects by opening that template, using File > New from Template rather than File > New.

There is no way to do this from a text file.

More information in the Help, including information on generating a palette from an existing document, if that will help.