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.
We are excited to announce that this feature is now available in BETA (starting V 29.1.28).
The new 'Generate color info' helps you share color information with others.
To use this, just select the colors from the swatch panel and click on 'generate color info' in the menu options.
You can customise the size, layout, color codes etc.
PS : Currently we only support CMYK values but other color codes such as RGB, HSB, spot vs process colors are in pipeline and we will ship them shortly.
Please try out this feature and let us know what you think!
Thanks
Saurav
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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.
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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
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behance.com/craducristian commented
Library is good but we need MOAR!
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Scott Wright commented
Yes, please.
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Brandon Ortega commented
+1 I need this
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Bill Bowman commented
Yes, please add this feature.
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El Joud Mohamed Yahye commented
Great idea, it’ll help a lot saving time, mainly colored illustration and fast coloring.
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Josh McKible commented
Yes, this!
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It looks almost like Swatch Libraries palettes you can open and enlarge swatches to a not that big a size. So ti's almost there already.
Gap options, larger size for squares, and easier way to create and save and manage these windows. -
Shane Rushby commented
Great idea. I haven't done the math, but the number of less clicks to achieve the same thing I imagine would drop by a huge percentage!!!
I highly doubt any design professional utilising AI PS ID wouldn't find this a useful part of their process!!
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Anonymous commented
Yes, this would be good. Same for Photoshop.
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Shelly Webster commented
This would save me making project swatches; and speeed up color work.