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1. Drag-and-Drop Swatches to Artboard

   This functionality wouldn't change the swatches palette it, but would allow users to drag a swatch to the artboard and drop it. You could tile several to create a tonal family or brand color set.

   Being able to scale them larger, arrange them, reformat the grid, turn the white gap off in between colors would improve color adjustment and comparing hues side by side. They'd function like the existing swatches panel in that you could have a shape or stroke selected and apply the color by clicking the swatch on the artboard.

   This would help in color exploration and creating effective color themes. Save common color usage in your workspace set up, export out as a group, share via Libraries, copy and paste artboard swatches to another file etc.

   This functionality wouldn't change the swatches palette it, but would allow users to drag a swatch to the artboard and drop it. You could tile several to create a tonal family or brand color set.

   Being able to scale them larger, arrange them, reformat the grid, turn the white gap off in between colors would improve color adjustment and comparing hues side by side. They'd function like the existing swatches panel in that you could have a shape or stroke selected and apply the color by clicking the swatch on the artboard.

   This would help in color exploration and creating… more

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   Started (Available in general build)  ·  AdminEgor Chistyakov (Admin, Adobe Illustrator) responded

   As mentioned before, this got shipped into the main (GA) build, but the development is not completed. The team has been gathering all the user feedback and intends to address it.

   Here are several relevant entries you can upvote.

   Bug reports:

   • Spots and Globals are converted into process colors when included into Swatch Info
   • Swatches Info doesn’t work for the only swatch selected
   • Swatch Info renders a saved tint as yet another copy of the main global color
   • The default text color in Swatches Info is rich RGB black when used in a CMYK document
   • Tabs in Swatch Info text are made with spaces instead of actual tabs
   • Bottom margins for labels are too small for Swatch Info objects in the column view (with no card backgrounds)

   Feature requests:

   • Auto-Eyedropper when hovering over Swatches Info objects
   • Allow to create Swatch Info object using a hotkey
   • Allow to actually drag-n-drop swatches on canvas to create a Swatch Info object
   • Allow to quickly enable or disable all Text Options for cards in Swatch Info objects
   • Layout for Swatch Info should allow to set grid, not only a row or a column
   • Allow to use custom user templates for Swatch Info objects
   • Allow to set text format for CMYK values and other data in Swatch Info objects
   • Allow to control font for Swatch Info objects
   • Allow to place cards next to color chips instead of always below for Swatch Info objects
   • Allow to include gradients and patterns in Swatch Info objects
   • Don’t force creating a dedicated layer for Swatch Info objects
   • Add Preview option when creating a Swatch Info object

   Feel free to add more if you think something is missing in these lists.

   As mentioned before, this got shipped into the main (GA) build, but the development is not completed. The team has been gathering all the user feedback and intends to address it.

   Here are several relevant entries you can upvote.

   Bug reports:

   • Spots and Globals are converted into process colors when included into Swatch Info
   • Swatches Info doesn’t work for the only swatch selected
   • Swatch Info renders a saved tint as yet another copy of the main global color
   • The default text color in Swatches Info is rich RGB black when used in a CMYK document
   • Tabs in Swatch Info text are made with spaces instead of actual tabs
   • Bottom margins for labels are too small for Swatch Info objects in the column view (with no card backgrounds)

   Feature requests:

   • Auto-Eyedropper when hovering over Swatches Info objects
   • Allow to create Swatch Info object using a hotkey
   • Allow to actually drag-n-drop swatches… more

2. Copy/paste color values as text

   I often need to list color values in RGB, CMYK, hex, etc for brand guidelines and printing. It would be helpful if there was an easy way to copy all color values as text. Right now you can only select one value at a time which is very tedious. I know there are scripts that exist to do something similar but it would be nice if it was a built-in feature!

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   Started (Available in general build)  ·  AdminEgor Chistyakov (Admin, Adobe Illustrator) responded

   Today Illustrator has Swatches Info — it allows most of the things requested here with the ability to have the chosen swatches to be placed on canvas as text, using chosen models.

   But perhaps there are other things not covered by Swatches Info? Please share your opinion in comments, so the team can plan further development.