Finding Pantone number

[cje]

How do I find to the Pantone number for a colour I've picked from the Pantone palette? 

I've picked a PMS number from the PMS palette, but now I can't figure out how to find back to which number I chose?
Roll-over doesn't show anything, Colour Picker only shows the CMYK colour....

[prophet]

Try the Color Panel

[cje]

Thank you

[thomaso]

4 hours ago, cje said:

Roll-over doesn't show anything,

Did you increase the "Tooltip Delay" in Preferences > User Interface? Do you get other tooltips with the expected delay? – Apart from Colour Panel and Tooltip also the List View in the Swatches Panel displays swatch names.

[prophet]

@thomaso The tooltip and list view shows the name of the Global Color, not the name of the Spot. So, if you haven't renamed the swatch's global color name to something that indicates the name of the spot, it won't be useful.

I find this a very inconvenient methodology, but maybe it's just me.

[thomaso]

11 minutes ago, prophet said:

The tooltip and list view shows the name of the Global Color, not the name of the Spot.

Oddly, it seems to depend on how a swatch gets added to a palette. Affinity Style: "Do it the wrong way to get it right."

If you do not use the right icon to add a colour as global swatch…

… but the left for "normal" swatches, then the PANTONE name gets used for the new swatch.

If you then right-click the new swatch and choose the option to make it global …

… the swatch gets identical spot + global names and the panel + tooltip show the PANTONE name:

But, as usual with Affinity swatches, if you then decide to change the global swatch colour and apply a different PANTONE #, then only the spot name gets updated while the global name sticks to its initial name and may require manual renaming:

Whereas if you change the colour of a non-global PANTONE spot swatch the Colours Panel does not show the Affinity swatch name any more but the correct, updated spot name only while the Swatches Panel sticks to the initial name:

The entire concept appears to be designed for users who prefer to avoid global colours and don't care for colour values or print production aspects but rather for illustrators who either simply don't need + ignore swatch names or like to customize the names anyway, e.g. like "grass green", "table" or "man's face" etc.

[cje]

On 8/8/2024 at 3:17 AM, thomaso said:

Did you increase the "Tooltip Delay" in Preferences > User Interface?

Interesting 👍 (but it was already located just on click above bottom)