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.
Von Glitschka (Vonster)
shared this idea
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Von Glitschka commented
The site wouldn't accept my original login. So I just voted for this again with my new login. It's like having a clone. I'm curious how many votes it takes to be added to a dev list? How many votes did it take to change the guides in Ai that no one was asking to be changed?
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There are several external methods of doing that.
https://github.com/johnwun/js4ai/blob/master/renderSwatchLegend.jsx
or
https://productivista.com/make-a-list-of-colors-from-your-selection/
and
https://o2creative.co.nz/shop/Powerscripts/Color_Sample_Prints_PowerScript_for_Adobe_Illustrator -
Willem Heijdeman
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I would love to see this feature added in the next update. Thanks for sharing this Von Glitschka!
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Yvette McMaster
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This would be very helpful when colouring vector art. Thanks.
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Anonymous
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Artboard swatches. This would be so helpful. I usually create a "Colors" layer manually to do some of this, but the functionality of having them still be Swatches would be very useful.
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Anonymous
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That would be helpful.
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Anonymous
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this would be
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Kathy J.
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This would be a real time saver.
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Ron Chan
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This is something I can use a lot!
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This is not a panel, but may be this script I made could help somebody from 368 users who voted for this?
It will place selected swatches (or all if none are selected) as a group of colored rectangles wit a set dimension.
https://twitter.com/tchegr/status/1330496523428372482 -
Jasmeet Singh
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Really need this feature.
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Bob Moniz
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definitely a needed feature
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P.S.R.
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Add it please
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Elena Salsi
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Please add this feature!!
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Bartosz
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Me approve.
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Jay Dub
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That is a great idea and one I fully support.
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Jeremy slagle
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Love it! Let’s make this happen!
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Shelly Webster
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This would be a timesaver for me. So would better vector export to 3d Packages.
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Samantha Rorke
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Drag and Drop swatches would be a phenomenal feature!
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Rahul Kulkarni
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Yes! I have been using Illustrator for 12 years and this will be so awesome. It will save a lot of time.
