Is there a way to add to swatches, the text colour or text background colour?

[GuyMiklos]

I can't add to swatches, the text or text background colour. What am I doing wrong?

[walt.farrell]

You can certainly add the Fill color of text as a Global color, and I would expect you to be able to add the Stroke color of the text (though I have not tried that). The text background color, though, is not something you can add directly as far as I know.

[fde101]

13 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

text background color, though, is not something you can add directly as far as I know.

You can set the text background color to a global color even on a selected-character basis from within the Character panel.

I do not see a direct way to add the text background color as a global color to the swatches, but if you open the popup from the Character panel, you can use the eyedropper in the corner of that popup to pick up the background color from the little circle next to Opacity then deselect everything and use the small swatch next to the eyedropper in the Swatches panel to choose that color as whichever is selected as stroke or fill, then click the button to add it as a global color.

Obviously, after doing that, you would need to re-select the text in question and use the popup on the Character panel to have the text actually using the global color that was created.

If the background color is clearly accessible in the document, you could simply use the eyedropper on the Swatches panel and skip the step of opening the popup in the Character panel until after the global color has been created.

All of this assumes that the color is 100% opaque.

This should work in all three apps.

[fde101]

1 minute ago, N.P.M. said:

If you created a background color in the textframepanel it should be present in the recents list in the swatchespanel.

Only if you did it from within the Affinity app, and have not added enough other colors since then to push it out.  This does not cover colors which were imported from an external document, for example.

 

13 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

You can certainly add the Fill color of text as a Global color, and I would expect you to be able to add the Stroke color of the text

To do this, select the text in question, and on the Swatches panel, you should see the two circles representing the fill and stroke colors of the text.  Make sure the one you want to create a global color from is active (click on it to bring it to the front), then click the button to add it as a global color.

Note that you won't even see that button unless the swatches palette you have open is a document palette (use the hamburger menu to create one if you don't have one already).

[GuyMiklos]

Thank you, fed101.