HEX code fields + deleting anchor points

[Karlito]

1.
In the colour panels, I'm using HSL slider most of the time because they are the most flexible and natural for choosing colour for me. But the problem is there is no HEX input field which I using very often. Each time I need to double click on the colour rectangle to open "colour chooser" and there enter or copy HEX code. The only slider which has HEX input is RGB Hex. It would be nice that the same input is on all other sliders. Also, in that case, you wouldn't need separate colour mode RGB Hex because RGB will already have Hex input

2.
This feature request is regarding deleting individual anchor points on the path. Currently, it works like this: We have a path with 4 anchor points. We select one and press delete. It will remove this point and automatically select the rest of the points and if we press delete again it will remove the complete path.
The better and more productive way would be like in the Sketch app. After deleting the first point it would select next in the order and we just keep pressing delete and removing individual points until the end. Thing is if I want to remove complete path is easier to select all and press delete. And on this way by selecting next in the order automatically we have the speed and flexibility to remove more than one individual point.

[Alfred]

3 minutes ago, Karlito said:

In the colour panels, I'm using HSL slider most of the time because they are the most flexible and natural for choosing colour for me. But the problem is there is no HEX input field which I using very often.

Hue is from 0° to 360°; saturation and luminance are both expressed as percentages. None of this sounds as though it’s well suited to hexadecimal representation.

[ugy]

I think you're missing the point. The sliders are useful for editing a colour, but as a web designer, I'm often pasting hex in from elsewhere as a starting point, and then also copying them out. That hex input box is also used as an output.

[walt.farrell]

51 minutes ago, ugy said:

I'm often pasting hex in from elsewhere as a starting point, and then also copying them out. That hex input box is also used as an output.

But wouldn't you be using RGB Hex mode with web design, not HSL?

[ugy]

If you start with a colour and you want to find a lighter/darker hue of it, the HSL sliders are the right tool for the job, regardless of how you then go on to use that colour.

[Old Bruce]

@ugy,

Use the big colour panel that comes up when you double click on the colour well in the Colour Panel.

[Customer Feedback]

@ugy

Please note that Affinity does not support 3 digit HEX values such as #f0f = #ff00ff

I agree that there should be a hex input field regardless of what color mode you are working in, as it is a very common scenario today that you get colors from customers or guidelines in hex, and that these colors are the starting point you work from regardless of whether you are in RGB, CMYK or other.

By the way, I think there are a bit many color picker modal types in Affinity.

/Eddie

[MmmMaarten]

@Karlito Completely agree with your first point. Everything I create is for browsers too and like you I also very much like the HSL mode, but have to switch to another mode, just to see and copy or paste a hex value for that color. I always wondered why Serif didn't just show that hex-input box on each mode so we can reach it from whatever mode we're in.