Sharing a standard color palette

[John Springer]

I have a swatch palette of 6 "standard" colors for our organization.  I want to use that across documents and among several authors, using both Mac and Win.  What is the best way to do that?  I don't need global colors; changing a color would be a big deal. In fact, I'd like to avoid accidentally changing a color in the palette. If I have each user import the palette as an application palette, then if they open a document prepared by a different user, will the document objects show the correct named colors?  Or does the swatch have to be imported into each document? Or something else?

[Oufti]

Use a system palette:

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The following types of palette exist within Affinity Publisher:

• Document—these palettes are saved within the current document.
• Application—these palettes are saved within Affinity Publisher. These palettes are available to any Affinity Publisher document.
• System—these palettes are saved to your operating system. These palettes are available within Affinity Publisher and other applications installed on your system.
• PANTONE®—these palettes are based on PANTONE® Colors. These palettes are available to any Affinity Publisher document.

 

Source : https://affinity.help/publisher2/en-US.lproj/pages/Panels/swatchesPanel.html

Note though that a palette is available for the user to choose colors from it, but this doesn't imply that the documents will use them if they are defined differently. 

[walt.farrell]

19 hours ago, Oufti said:

Use a system palette:

That's Mac-only, though. 

Windows users would need to use Application palettes as John mentioned, and at that point perhaps the Mac users should, too, for consistency?

Or for new documents one could always start from a Template, which could include a Document palette. 

Also, the Swatches panel lets you setup a standard Document palette that will be used whenever you create a new document with a certain color profile, which could be used to instantiate the Document palette automatically in new Affinity documents. But that would not handle the case of opening, e.g., a JPG file where you might also want to use the customized palette as it would only work for File > New.

So, overall, using Application palettes (Windows) or either Application or System palettes (Mac) is probably easiest.