Designer : "Make Global" option in swatches always greyed out ?

[Denyer]

Not sure what I'm doing wrong, but in my document if I right click a non-global swatch I can't select "Make Global" and for the life of me I can't work out why. I have some spot colours in my document already and wanted to make some other colours global so they could be easily changed across the design but to no avail.

I can workaround it by writing down the colour values, then clicking the small icon in the top right of the swatches pallette and selecting "Add Global Colour" but this is time consuming and somewhat annoying when there's a context menu option staring at me!

It's possible it's down to the colour space I'm editing in but I went to check and I can't find anywhere or any method to report or change the colour mode, so I'm just hoping it's sRGB!

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, @Denyer.

Global colors can only exist in a Document Palette. So, if you haven't created a Document Palette or if you have created one but the swatch you're dealing with is not in it  then you won't be able to make the swatch global.

[Denyer]

Well bums - I think that might be it - because I have to work on 20-30 different brand elements across a host of documents I created an application palette in order to simplify things (All assets must use the same corporate palette of spot and brand colours).

This is a bear - Do you know what would be "Best Practice" to have a palette full of global colour definitions that I can use document to document? It appears that creating a palette from one of the documents threw all the pantone refs under a bus. Oh goodness this is a bit of a mess

Edited April 22, 2021 by Denyer

[walt.farrell]

You can export a palette as a .afpalette file and reload it as a document palette.

Or you can create a Template file with your palette in it as a document palette, and always start your new documents using that Template.

[Denyer]

Brilliant, that's nailed it, thankyou!

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome.