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.

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.
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Kate May commented
Yes please!
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Bob commented
Please add this feature. I pay, you add. ;)
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Heba Zituni commented
Pleeeeeeaaaase 🙏
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Farouk commented
Omg yes please
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Melissa Kipp commented
Yes please.
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tom tate commented
for the love of all that is holy, YES!
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Scott Madore commented
Yes, please. This would be good.
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Bob Moniz commented
I think this would be extremely valuable. Would make color scheme comparison that much easier!!
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Joel Ohmer commented
i voted
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Anonymous commented
A nice touch. So its a scalable "Break Out Box" that stays dynamic and functional right?
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Javier Serrano commented
Add this feature!
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Anonymous commented
Yes, very much so... Please!
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Asad Ponir commented
Yes, Please!
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Nancy commented
Yes, please!
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Lisa Sher commented
Heck yaaaaaa!
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Mark DiSciullo commented
Do it Adobe...do it!!!
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Paul Lukes commented
Great idea. Cosigned!
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Anonymous commented
Hell yes! Great idea.
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Bob commented
yes please
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Christopher commented
Von - thank you for pushing this forward, it's LONG overdue!