What color mode am I working in?

[Stephen_H]

I'm finding working with color in Designer to be at times both confusing and frustrating. Once I've created a document, how do I tell what its color format is? If I have a few documents open, some are RGB for web, and some are CMYK for print, I'm getting confused which is which, and can't find any thing that displays my color mode. Even my color mixer will present RGB and CMYK sliders, depending on what I used last.

Alternatively, does Designer not actually have color modes and just relies on me to mix my swatches in the correct format? ie: I can use both RGB and CMYK colors in the same document.

 

Here's a screenshot of my document. Can someone point out something that indicates the color mode of this document, or tell me of a setting that will turn on an indicator or similar?

[Joachim_L]

You will only know when you visit Document setup. And yes, it should be (just a guess) no problem to indicate the colour format somewhere (at least with a small icon). A workaround COULD BE - this is not working and I don't know why - to define a default colour palette for RGB, CMYK or else to be shown SELECTED in the Swatches panel.

So dear developers at Serif: Please explain why a default palette is not the default palette when creating a new document? Instead one of the other useless (my opinion) palettes is pre-selected.

[Slammer]

Here and here

[Joachim_L]

I think Stephen wants to see the colour format without visiting menus or similar actions. ID and PS is showing this information on the document tabs.

PS: OT, I hope God is not having such fluff stuff like me in his bellybutton.

 

[Stephen_H]

Thanks for the quick response. I thought I was going crazy.

This is a bit disappointing because, strangely enough, Affinity Photo does display the color mode.