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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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.
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Matt, this is odd! These are indeed get rounded to 5 at your screenshots! But when I try to reproduce it, it behaves fine for me, the names are correct (well, rounded to ones).
Can you help me to find what differs? It should not be like this. -
Yes, Anne, it seems like UserVoice treats links without protocol clearly stated as local ones :) Added 'https://'; and now it should work.
Thanks for mentioning it! -
anne
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From the description of the Swatches Info feature, this looks perfect! Thank you!! By the way, your link to the feature doesn't work, but I got there by deleting everything before "helpx.adobe.com" within that link.
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Matt
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So excited about this feature being added! Have long wished for a native way to do this. Will save tons of time and tedium. Thank you!
After a quick review and testing, one thing I notice is that when the color is a process color, the swatch "name" that's generated at the top of the list is a CMYK value, but it's very rough/rounded up or down numbers. The actual CMYK values are displayed down in the list, but I'm afraid it may throw people off if they see the wrong values at the top. Is there a way to address that?
Also in some cases it might be nice to have an option to set the card color to black or gray instead of only white. -
Nye Lyn Tho
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You can by opening the "Properties" window (Window > Properties) Select your desired color. Then single click the color palette within the "Properties" window. Another color box will pop up. Within that one select the plus icon at the bottom. Another window will pop up. Now you can copy and paste the color code. To switch to CMYK, change the color mode in the last color pop-up box. It's odd cause you have to click within one of the numbers below to enact the one above to change. Hope that makes sense. Hope that helps.
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Anonymous commented
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Munin PNG
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yes I always look number and write.
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Jenni Pagano
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YES!! I need this all the time!
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Daniel Schneider
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Was about to suggest the very same thing. Think if you could just command-a and mark all values, would save me a lot of time actually.
