davidlower8 Posted November 14, 2023 Posted November 14, 2023 Hi, Could I please request that a hex value box be added to the swatches panel like you have done with the colour wheel. Currently if I want to grab the hex value of a swatch (which is quite often) I have to select the swatch > go to the colour menu (which defaults to the edit view - which is annoying) > Then I have to select colour wheel from top right menu. It is a very verbose way to grab hex value. Can we just add it to the swatches panel. Thank you. Frozen Death Knight, debraspicher, PaoloT and 1 other 4 Quote
eduardotanco Posted November 14, 2023 Posted November 14, 2023 That will be amazing to have. Sometimes when you have similar colors it becomes a little bit tricky to know who is the one you need without the Hex value. davidlower8 and Frozen Death Knight 2 Quote
GarryP Posted November 14, 2023 Posted November 14, 2023 2 hours ago, davidlower8 said: Currently if I want to grab the hex value of a swatch (which is quite often) I have to select the swatch > go to the colour menu (which defaults to the edit view - which is annoying) > Then I have to select colour wheel from top right menu. Alternatively you can right-click the swatch, choose Edit Fill from the menu, and then get the Hex Values from the pop-up (as long as the pop-up is set to one of the options which displays the Hex values – I believe this option is ‘sticky’). Not as quick as having the value already displayed in the panel, but quicker than your current method. Quote
Old Bruce Posted November 14, 2023 Posted November 14, 2023 You could try using the Appearance > View as list option. Depending on how the Swatches were made you might see the Hex values, or a name or CMYK values or RGB values. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.6.0 | Affinity Photo 2.6.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.0 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
davidlower8 Posted November 14, 2023 Author Posted November 14, 2023 5 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: You could try using the Appearance > View as list option. Depending on how the Swatches were made you might see the Hex values, or a name or CMYK values or RGB values. Yeah this solution doesn't work for me unfortunately. I just get the name of the colours which isn't helpful. Thank you for the suggestion though. Quote
AshTeriyaki Posted November 20, 2023 Posted November 20, 2023 Gonna add my idea to this rather than a new thread, but IMO a hex input should be shown everywhere a colour value exists, so in both swatches and in colour panels in every mode, in this scenario the RGB hex option would not need to exist. Bonus points for being able to copy colours in and out in other text formats like HSL/HSLA/RGB/RGBA Quote
Evehne Posted November 21, 2023 Posted November 21, 2023 On 11/14/2023 at 4:41 PM, Old Bruce said: You could try using the Appearance > View as list option. Depending on how the Swatches were made you might see the Hex values, or a name or CMYK values or RGB values. Big NOPE 😆 actually.. but, but it might be a good idea to have a menu that allows you to override the color names in list mode. Something like this : Quote 🖥️ Intel Core i5-8600K | nVidia RTX 3060 | 32Go RAM DDR4 | Windows 11 📅 Affinity Designer 2 | illustrator | Blender | Delphi | VSCode | FLStudio | Audition 💰 Logo.Web.UI Designer | Full stack Dev Resources : Affinity Forum - Resources - Palettes, Colors swatchs
Meliora spero Posted May 5, 2024 Posted May 5, 2024 On 11/20/2023 at 1:30 PM, AshTeriyaki said: Gonna add my idea to this rather than a new thread, but IMO a hex input should be shown everywhere a colour value exists, so in both swatches and in colour panels in every mode, in this scenario the RGB hex option would not need to exist. Bonus points for being able to copy colours in and out in other text formats like HSL/HSLA/RGB/RGBA Absolutely, yes! Quote Serif, did you foolishly fill the usability specialist role you advertised internally? If so, be transparent with your customers. Continuing without proper UX expertise both insults and affects your entire customer base.
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