Linked colors/Dynamic color table

[vitaprimo]

Recently I modified the logo on a web UI so it wasn't so big and gaudy.

In the process I stumbled into some CSS where I noticed some things; as most know, recent mainstream OSes come with day/night light/dark modes which websites react to. This was that. Using CSS, colors are dynamically applied to an index of the image(s), an SVG, so it's transformed on the fly. Think Symbols but only for colors.

I avoided all that by using double and additional line stroke where it contacts void/blank space and slightly gradient/shadow the inner, bigger stroke line. It looks nicer, it pops up yet it still looks as flat design and it allows me to do more where all input I have is a single file.

That used a lot of tweaks though, it needs good enough resolution and dimensions so effects are discernible without pixelation but at the same time it has to be the smallest possible because it's a mostly useless UI element. I'm aware logos sometimes have a very limited color (and shade) number and I won't always be able to hack things my way so I thought I should probably be a good idea to familiarize myself now that I don't need to rather than under pressure--is it available in Designer? :)

[Dan C]

Hi @vitaprimo,

Unfortunately I don't believe this workflow is possible to automate within Designer, as we don't currently support 'linked colours' etc - my apologies.

I'll be sure to move this thread to the Feedback section of our forums - for our devs to see and consider adding in a future version

I hope this helps!

[vitaprimo]

I see-no apologies needed, I was just curious. Honestly, I'm fine if it's not there and not going to be there. Leave as incentive to upgrade to version 2, if at all.

[Long unnecessary ramble]

Spoiler

Today I got an update for Designer I had been avoiding for months because they make documents incompatible with older versions. Only one computer is allowed to connect to Apple's servers anymore, when one roams into a network with open firewalls it becomes a whole thing to update all. It was ¾ of a gig too, before decompression and reversal of app thinning, IDK if that's with/without App Thinning, but either way it's getting Adobey. It takes much longer to load too. I remember this one version that was under 300MB and installed in El Capitan..or was it the one with the green-blue wave wallpaper?... IDK but it was already around the Mojave era. It was smooth too.

I hope they don't it doesn't bloat like Adobe's. I love Affinity Designer, before it I was terrified of even converting shapes into curves because I thought that was the end of it.

Since Symbols are very close to that and there are tools that I think are way more advanced than that, it was rather easy to convince myself it was there already. Scientology levels on self-convincing. Thanks for clearing it up.

It just occurred to me that maybe if symbols weren't used as self-composed elements but rather as shapes acting as color fills. Give if a highly contrasting color, like green screens, but no so much visually but "hexadecimally" highly contrasting (A1A1A1, FFFFF, ABCDEF, no RGB-leading 0s...), so it can be easily isolated in the SVG's XML and it could be done right now with no additional code. Off the top of my head...IDK. umm.. Thanks again!