Can I delete multiple swatches

[Jim Monson]

In revising my AD color palette I see no way to delete multiply swatches (entire sections of individual swatches). Am I missing something?

[Jim Monson]

Thanks. I didn't see the Full Editor.

[A_B_C]

Unfortunately, you are not missing anything … it is currently impossible to delete multiple individual swatches …  :(

[Alfred]

I meant "Swatches" not "Swathes." 

 

If you edit your original post and click on 'Use Full Editor', you should find that you are able to correct the topic title and the topic tags.

[Jim Monson]

Thanks. At least I wish that I could copy an object from another doc and have the color (by its name) appear in the color swatches of my current doc. This would be very helpful since otherwise I must create the color from scratch in my current doc. While AD is a fantastic relief from Illustrator, I believe that a few fixes in dealing with swatches would help. 

[A_B_C]

Jim, you can always export a swatches palette and import it in your new document. Or you create an application (or system) palette to have your colors available accross documents …  :)

[Jim Monson]

Thanks, ABC. This I do this often but in the process I would like to delete many of the swatches within a palette. As you said, a single swatch delete is the only current way to do this.

[R C-R]

We have to delete swatches one at a time in the Swatches panel because we are not allowed to select more than one swatch at a time, right? I suspect this is because if we could select more than one this would create ambiguities when choosing a swatch to use -- which one we wanted to use would be unclear.

 

So, what about requesting a new feature, a Swatches Manager, to resolve this? I think it could enable several other improvements over the Swatches panel UI, too. One would be rename in place, similar to how that is done with a double click on a layer name, which would do away with the need for the tedious modal rename window we have to use now.

 

It also might be a better place for the import/export options & some of the other things that clutter up the Swatches panel menu.

 

Anybody think this is a good idea?

[LilleG]

A Swatches Manager sounds like a great idea, R C-R!  I hope we will see this implemented.  It's not a critical feature but it would be one of the things that make a program a joy to use, which always leads to user praise to others, which leads to....

[Kal]

Has there been any update to allow you to delete multiple swatches? I was scratching my head over this one myself and sure there had to be a way. I only like to see the swatches I am actually using in any document. (One of the first things I used to do after an Illustrator install was delete every swatch and re-save the default AI files.) As it stands, I'm finding it quite painful to manage limited colour pallets in Designer. The 'recent' colour swatches are useful, but can't always be relied upon.

[Kal]

Wait up… I just discovered 'Create Palette from Document' under the swatches options menu. That essentially achieves what I wanted and in a more elegant way than Illustrator ever did. Carry on… I'm happy.  :)

[KarinvdB]

Is there a way to do this now? Because I just seem to have accidentally cleared my document palette without realizing. I was using it in a tutorial and a little while later I want to pick another color and all 8 colors I had in there were gone. Maybe I hit some key combination that caused the palette to be cleared? I'd love to know so I can avoid doing it again accidentally.

[walt.farrell]

3 hours ago, KarinvdB said:

Is there a way to do this now? Because I just seem to have accidentally cleared my document palette without realizing. I was using it in a tutorial and a little while later I want to pick another color and all 8 colors I had in there were gone. Maybe I hit some key combination that caused the palette to be cleared? I'd love to know so I can avoid doing it again accidentally.

Is the palette itself missing, or is the palette still there but without any swatches in it?

You can certainly delete complete palettes (hamburger icon, choose delete palette), but I don't think you can remove multiple colors from a palette in one operation. And, of course, for a document palette, switching to a different document would give you either no document palette or one with different colors.

[Markus Plutonika]

Anybody aware of any recent developments on this topic?

It’s still a royal PITA to clean up or repurpose a cluttered palette. The same actually applies to the symbols and text styles panel.

I love so many approaches Affinity takes, but managing reusable assets is clearly sub-par. Slightly off-topic, but having linked assets in a separate window is kinda clunky as well.

[Cristian Dragos]

On 10/15/2024 at 12:10 PM, Markus Plutonika said:

Anybody aware of any recent developments on this topic?

It’s still a royal PITA to clean up or repurpose a cluttered palette. The same actually applies to the symbols and text styles panel.

I love so many approaches Affinity takes, but managing reusable assets is clearly sub-par. Slightly off-topic, but having linked assets in a separate window is kinda clunky as well.

Yup, this drives me nuts! They should add something like an Assets Manager or something where you can remove stuff in bulk.

[Markus Plutonika]

19 hours ago, Cristian Dragos said:

Yup, this drives me nuts! They should add something like an Assets Manager or something where you can remove stuff in bulk.

Nice idea. Although a simple multiple selection with ⇧ or ⌘ or ^ would suffice I guess.

Also not being able to rename a color swatch when you edit it is not nice. Right now you double click to edit the color values and subsequently have to right-click to rename it. Makes managing color palettes quite cumbersome …

[GarryP]

See: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/176422-v2-affinity-suite-requested-improvements-to-swatches-panel/

[Markus Plutonika]

3 minutes ago, GarryP said:

See: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/176422-v2-affinity-suite-requested-improvements-to-swatches-panel/

Thank you for sharing. I added another point. Sadly no replies in that thread …T

[GarryP]

8 minutes ago, Markus Plutonika said:

Sadly no replies in that thread

If I remember correctly, V2 hadn’t long been released when that other thread was created so Serif (and many other people) might have had other things to deal with, and it was just left to ‘fall to the bottom of the feedback ocean’.

Now that you have ‘brought it back to the surface’ again by adding a post to it, it might get more attention.