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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Bernadette commented
Yes! Excellent idea!
Also, being able to create / add new swatches without first requiring that a tool be active. -
Anonymous commented
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Anonymous commented
Excelente programa
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Anonymous commented
Yes!
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Dr. Sam commented
Yes great idea 💡
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Charith Madhuranga commented
Yes, Great idea. I appreciate will be added in future
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Jasmeet Singh commented
Its a great feature. This will help a lot. Please integrate this into upcoming update Adobe.
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Anonymous commented
Have wanted this intuitive feature to happen for years.
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Rachik commented
I like that 👍😊
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Mary commented
yes!!! Great idea.
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Anonymous commented
Yes. Great feature!
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Anonymous commented
Yes, it will speed up my work flow
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Lisa commented
Yes, please!
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Christian Messer commented
I vote for this feature! PLEASE! It’d make life just a little easier
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Anonymous commented
Yes is nice idea
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Anonymous commented
Great idea. A worthy feature indeed.
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Pam Gorman commented
I’m there!
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Harold Chavarria commented
💯 Let’s do this!
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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.