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.
People who felt the need for this functionality : Can you please highlight what is the underlying need/problem that you are trying to solve? Why you need to see swatches on your artboard / canvas?
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Chana Messer commented
Yes!!! I am in!!!!
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Anonymous commented
Yes, please that would be a great working asset! Great idea.
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Judy Durkin.com commented
Yes. I would use it a lot!
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David commented
This is a no-brainer idea, yes, please!
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TT Kiker commented
This would be VERY useful!!! Great idea!!!
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Anonymous commented
Very useful.
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Anonymous commented
Yes please.
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Marcus Mucha commented
Yes … great idea VON!
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Mark Weaver commented
This would be a very useful function. Please integrate that into your next Illustrator release.
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Jeff Ross commented
Great feature. Vote yes.
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Ken Carver commented
This just makes sense. It's an accommodation to how designers and artists are already working and want to work, similar to placing the sidewalks where people are already walking. It's a simple win all the way around.
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Ruth F commented
Got my vote! This would be really useful.
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Sumon Angelo commented
Brilliant idea and I support it.
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Bruce Colthart commented
YES YES YES - current libraries are good but feel stuck in the past
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f commented
This is a really neat idea.
Please Adobe teams, improve Illustrator in order to ease our work.
This should already be a feature. -
Anonymous commented
Yes PLEASE
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Anonymous commented
Yes!!!!!
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Michael Clayton commented
This would be so valuable! Please add this!
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Sean Ferguson commented
THIS. Why doesn't this already exist?
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Julian Torpedo Strayhorn II commented
Yes please