Idea for better color swatch preview

[JeffKontur]

Color swatches in all Affinity products are only a few pixels square, at best. I'd like to see a feature where, if you click/press and hold, it temporarily pops up a much larger swatch of the color you're pressing on.

That pop-up could also include other info such as the color name, Hex, RGB, CMYK and other values, etc. This information can already be accessed through other means, so that's less important. However there is no way to get a really good view of a color, short of a view tiny pixels, without actually painting a large area with it on the screen. (I created and attached a mock-up of what this new pop-up might look like.)

Also, once a color has been selected, or when selecting an object that already has a stroke or fill color, there is no way to find out the name of the color. I can find all the values, but not the name. Mouse hover does not show a tooltip for recently used colors and the color is not highlighted on the swatch panel in any way. Both the mouse hover tooltip and highlighting on the swatch panel are features that could be useful in some instances.

[fde101]

A few existing options in the meantime:

• Drag the eyedropper over the swatch
• As you are on a Mac, look at /Applications/Utilities/Digital Color Meter
• Also as you are on a Mac, go to System Settings -> Accessibility -> Zoom and try a few of the options there, for example:
  1. Enable Use Keyboard Shortcuts to Zoom
  2. Set Zoom Style to Picture-In-Picture then click Size and Location to choose where on the screen and how big an area you want to see them in
  3. Click Advanced and turn on Keep Zoom Window Stationary
  4. Use Command+Option+8 to turn it on.
  5. Point to the middle of a swatch and tree Command+Option+"=" repeatedly until the swatch color fills the zoom area on the screen
  6. You can now toggle the display of the enlarged swatch using Command+Option+8

 

Note that screen colors may not match print colors, and colors may not always match 100% between displays, particularly if any of them are not calibrated or are prone to be moved between differing lighting environments.

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[JeffKontur]

Thanks for the workarounds, guys! Not 100% what I was looking for, but these are immediate and a definite improvement over what my tired eyes were dealing with before.