Global Colors and Color Chords

[Petar Petrenko]

Please,

add in "Swatches" palette Global and Chords beside Grays, Colors and Gradients. You can provide some examples for them like R, G, B, C, M, Y, K defined as global colors, and for one example of every color chord. Also:

1. All global colors to be named by their color values, like standard colors, not "Global Color 1"...
2. All colors of a chord to be grouped in horizontal line to be easily destinguished from other chords.
3. All colors of a chord to be global and linked between each other. It means, when one color of a chord is changed, all others of the same chord are changed accordingly (with live preview, of course) by the rules for that type of chord.

[Petar Petrenko]

This is Adobe's Color Wheel for color chords with linked global colors, but it is unnecesarry if you add number 3 from my previous post:

https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/?base=2&rule=Triad&selected=4&name=My Color Theme&mode=cmyk&rgbvalues=0.12542433343003226,0.36519909312993226,0.7,1,0.1090198476833848,0,0.07917761918576038,0.4634437444884022,1,0.659300048002335,0.8,0.14334209534860828,0.5500132782980017,0.7,0&swatchOrder=0,1,2,3,4

[Nivrams]

If I understand Petar's request #1, it's that all Global colors be labeled with their respective color components (CMK or RGB.)

That's a minimum. I would prefer ALL swatches be thus labeled… and possibly editable to give the color a reference… all leaves, all pencils, etc..

In addition there must be a way to select a spot PMS color by typing its reference#. And the document swatch file must be available in list form with labels at all times.

Color overprinting should be on an object-by-object basis. Or the object selection should override the swatch designation. Or both.

Full-color printing or video art are not as demanding as spot color or flexographic art where every object is a specific ink or combination. AD should be as suitable as Illustrator.

I would like AD to do simple jobs accurately. Affinity photo does a good job at refining photos, but right now, I find Affinity Designer makes simple print jobs more challenging

than necessary. I would love vector blending and envelope distortion, but Designer has to handle color(s) better. Or at least let me know where I can find out what I'm missing.

This is not in criticism of Perar's observations. His are more sophisticated and include things that Adobe has recently made available

 

[Petar Petrenko]

10 hours ago, Nivrams said:

That's a minimum. I would prefer ALL swatches be thus labeled… and possibly editable to give the color a reference… all leaves, all pencils, etc..

If you check "Show as List" in "Swatxhes > hamburger menu > Appearance" you will see their color values. It is true only for standard colors.