Gobal colour and swatches.

[scgreentea]

Hi all,

Is it possible to have colours set to global in a system swatch? i am using AD 1.10.4 on an imac.

Thanks in advance.

[walt.farrell]

No. Global colors require a Document Palette, as explained in the Help: https://affinity.help/designer2/en-US.lproj/pages/Clr/globalClr.html

 

[scgreentea]

Thanks

[thomaso]

The interface can be confusing with global / spot colours and swatches in the different palette types: For instance, you may add a global spot colour via the Colours panel to an application palette in the Swatches panel / and you may export a custom palette of Global Spot colour swatches + import this as application or system palette … but it will loose the global property, and, if imported as Application palette, the interface still displays in the Swatches panel the 'spot' symbols on the swatch icons and in the Colours panel the colour names … and thus may you think to work with global spot colours.

[Bryan Rieger]

1 hour ago, thomaso said:

The interface can be confusing with global / spot colours and swatches in the different palette types: For instance, you may add a global spot colour via the Colours panel to an application palette in the Swatches panel / and you may export a custom palette of Global Spot colour swatches + import this as application or system palette … but it will loose the global property, and, if imported as Application palette, the interface still displays in the Swatches panel the 'spot' symbols on the swatch icons and in the Colours panel the colour names … and thus may you think to work with global spot colours.

This still does my head in. Colour management in the Affinity apps is really basic and unintuitive. Serif, any chance this is on your radar to address?

[lacerto]

Obsolete.

[thomaso]

1 hour ago, lacerto said:

All defined attributes (spot, overprint, global, color mode) survive so the feature has some functionality (…)

I think this should work similarly also in 1.x versions of Affinity apps.

To me in V1 the global attribute of being linked to a global swatch may get lost for objects copied between documents even if both documents got the same document palette imported. – Was this improved in V2?

[lacerto]

Obsolete.

[thomaso]

4 hours ago, lacerto said:

If the swatch is not there but is created the link will be automatically re-established to objects with the swatch assignment and parent-child relationships are restored. This happens even when loading an external document palette with correct color definitions and attributes,

I can't get it in a reliable way. With a copied/pasted object with has two global fill & stroke swatches assigned it appears to work sometimes and sometimes it doesn't highlight the assigned swatch as expected, sometimes it works for the fill, sometimes for the stroke only. As if the Swatches panel lacks in feedback. Therefore it doesn't matter indeed whether the global palette exists in the other document before pasting the object or gets imported after pasting the object.

[lacerto]

Obsolete.